I was going through this video on YouTube, and it talks about how, if not done right, software in the future will suck.
So the idea is simple: no juniors today means no seniors tomorrow. You can’t just skip the basic level and expect a level 99 dev to spawn out of nowhere.
Right now, seniors are getting absolutely cooked — juggling code reviews, architecture, and cleaning up after AI’s “smart” suggestions that usually end up being stack traces with confidence issues. Everyone’s yelling “use AI to go faster!” while the models themselves are out there feeding off AI slop.
Yeah, juniors cost money. So does burnout. And right now, the industry is speedrunning both. When the current seniors finally log off for good, who’s gonna replace them? The AI? Please. Working context per end user is mostly limited, therefore it renders it's impossible for models to work with large codeBase with proper context as a real dev working for months on that same, If we keep overworking the few real engineers left while refusing to train new ones, the whole thing collapses — slower code, broken systems, and a generation of devs trying to debug AI-generated nonsense with no one around who remembers how the damn thing works.