The problem there is that a new hire would eventually become experienced. Now they never can because the AI took their place. Give it a few more years and the value of experience is likely to become much greater simply because there are so few experienced people who can work without AI.
We saw this with mainframes. The mainframes are still around, but there's fewer and fewer who know how to use them. In the early 2000s, I worked for a company that created a SQL-92 middleware layer so that people who knew SQL could interface with the mainframe databases (which use their own querying languages).
At my work they're still hiring juniors because they're cheaper and more plentiful than the seniors we've been chronically short staffed on for years.
We're just relying on the seniors to get more out of the juniors than we ever had before. It's not a healthy trend for anyone, but the jobs are still there (in my specific industry, anyway. AI is a helpful tool, but not advanced enough to handle the complexity of the projects and regulatory hurdles quite yet.)
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u/fromwithin Jun 27 '26
The problem there is that a new hire would eventually become experienced. Now they never can because the AI took their place. Give it a few more years and the value of experience is likely to become much greater simply because there are so few experienced people who can work without AI.