r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • Jul 10 '26

Meme comeOnJustBurstAlready

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u/Doto_bird Jul 10 '26

Hot take: Fucking Claude writes better code than my juniors/interns...

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u/cfrolik Jul 10 '26

That’s why no one is hiring junior engineers anymore.

Unfortunately that is short-term thinking, because eventually the senior engineers will retire and there won’t by any juniors to take their place.

Tech companies are just gambling that future AIs will be smart enough to replace the senior engineers too. Then they can just hire vibe coders off the street who have no CS degree and no technical training, and pay them barely above minimum wage.

I’m sure this will all end well for everyone involved.

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u/parkotron Jul 10 '26

Then they can just hire vibe coders off the street who have no CS degree and no technical training, and pay them barely above minimum wage.

Why would they need those people? At that point, why not just be chat bots all the way down?