Junior Developers in the Age of AI
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Despite widespread fears of a developer shortage, the entry-level job market has collapsed while demand for senior talent remains strong. Companies justify avoiding junior hires with AI reasoning, but this ignores engineering's core responsibility: maintaining complex, interconnected systems that require institutional knowledge. Organizations that can't absorb junior talent lack resilience and miss out on the energy, AI adoption skills, and future leadership pipeline that entry-level engineers provide.
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