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The Future of the Software Engineering Career
Adventures in Nodeland
- When AI can implement features faster than any junior developer, what becomes valuable is the judgment to know whether the implementation is correct. And judgment requires understanding.
- When an AI produces a sorting algorithm, can you tell if it’s appropriate for your data properties? When it suggests a caching layer, do you understand the trade-offs in consistency? When it generates a distributed system design, can you spot the failure modes?
- The bootcamp model worked because it was a pipeline into “training on the job” positions. You’d learn enough to be productive on day one, and companies would invest in developing you further. Junior developer roles were abundant. The expectation was that you’d learn the missing skills over the years of professional practice. Those junior roles are disappearing. Not slowly. Rapidly.