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I had a frank conversation with a hiring manager about it. What he said was even if we hire juniors, juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of o
by deadbabe 4mo ago
I had a frank conversation with a hiring manager about it.
What he said was even if we hire juniors, juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI.
So basically, today’s juniors are not worth investing in. Until society really sorts itself out with responsibile AI usage in a way that still develops independent professional skills, there is no point in hiring juniors. They will just be a more expensive version of whatever AI agent they use, which can be used directly by seniors anyway.
Companies today do not have to really worry about who replaces the seniors, that will be a problem for newer companies in 20 years or so. In time a solution will arrive naturally.
- mxkopy 4mo agoI love how the basic expectation of having a job and the life altering circumstance of not having one factors into this not even a little bit
- musicale 4mo ago> juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI this does not seem to be an argument for requiring junior employees to focus on using AI tools
- vanuatu 4mo agothats interesting, the HMs where I work love hiring juniors (who pass the bar) because they are so AI-native the more experienced engineers can help with setting guardrails and mentorship, but the juniors come unconstrained by priors on how to use ai in creative ways to solve all sorts of business problems.
- deadbabe 4mo agoThat just sounds like a good way to end up with solutions like AI agents for parsing a text instead of a deterministic regex. Juniors have no advantage over seniors in AI skills.