The Seniority Gap: AI vs Junior Developers
Cesar Fazio
Every senior engineer alive today was once a junior developer who wrote bad code. They shipped bugs, got pulled aside by a colleague, and slowly learned to think like an architect. The process is hard, expensive, and profoundly human; this is how software wisdom has always been transferred from one generation to the next. Now, for the first time, companies are inadvertently incentivized to bypass mentorship, pitting AI vs junior developers.
Why wouldn’t they? On a spreadsheet, a junior...