I agree here. GP should take time to learn the thing and use AI to assist in learning not direct implementation.
If there is going to be room for junior folks in SWE, it will probably be afforded to those who understand some language’s behaviors at a fairly decent level.
I’d presume they will also be far better at system design, TDD and architecture than yesterday’s juniors, (because they will have to be to drive AI better than other hopeful candidates).
But there will be plenty of what will be grey beards around that expect syntactical competence and fwiw, if you can’t read your own code, even slowly, you fail at the most crucial aspect of AI accelerated development—-validation.
If there is going to be room for junior folks in SWE, it will probably be afforded to those who understand some language’s behaviors at a fairly decent level.
I’d presume they will also be far better at system design, TDD and architecture than yesterday’s juniors, (because they will have to be to drive AI better than other hopeful candidates).
But there will be plenty of what will be grey beards around that expect syntactical competence and fwiw, if you can’t read your own code, even slowly, you fail at the most crucial aspect of AI accelerated development—-validation.