> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.
> Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive, be they fleshly or algebraic.
But do you know what another part of being a senior developer is? Not just making them more productive, but also guiding the junior developers into becoming better, independent, self-tasking, senior coders. And that feedback loop doesn't exist here.
We're robbing ourselves of good future developers, because we aren't even thinking about the fact that the junior devs are actively learning from the small tasks we give them.
Will AI completely replace devs before we all retire? Maybe. Maybe not.
But long before that, the future coders who aren't being hired and trained because a senior dev doesn't understand that the junior devs become senior devs (and that's an important pipeline) and would rather pay $20/month for an LLM, are going to become a major loss/ brain drain domestically.
One which is reeling from layoffs caused by short-term profit-maximizing bandwagoning in the tech sector. CEO see, CEO do.
We didn't just magically have tens of thousands of new programmers/ IT pros. pop out of nowhere, they were laid off. There is no situation in which this brain-drain will benefit them. They can't wait around for 10 years for it to get really bad, in the hopes that at that point they'll be back in high demand.