My thoughts on Who will be the senior engineer in 2035?: Who will be the senior engineer in 2035?
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- Who will be the senior engineer in 2035?
- Totally valid point. If AI is becoming the cheap junior dev, who are we upskilling for the future?
- The gap is already wide. In a couple of years, it might grow like crazy, and the divide of expectation and reality might hit people and developers alike.
- There is and will be an expectation of in-depth understanding of code, but by using the AI-Agents, the quality will deteriorate drastically; developers won’t read and write code, and the instincts and the muscle memory to write code without assistance will be gone.
- I am thinking of doing weekly streams now, to hand-code certain things. Maybe that will keep me up my ante of vim flexing and away from vibe coding.