[HN Gopher] The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
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       The Next Two Years of Software Engineering
        
       Author : napolux
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2026-01-11 22:00 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ahmetomer wrote:
       | > Junior developers: Make yourself AI-proficient and versatile.
       | Demonstrate that one junior plus AI can match a small team's
       | output. Use AI coding agents (Cursor/Antigravity/Claude
       | Code/Gemini CLI) to build bigger features, but understand and
       | explain every line if not most. Focus on skills AI can't easily
       | replace: communication, problem decomposition, domain knowledge.
       | Look at adjacent roles (QA, DevRel, data analytics) as entry
       | points. Build a portfolio, especially projects integrating AI
       | APIs. Consider apprenticeships, internships, contracting, or open
       | source. Don't be "just another new grad who needs training"; be
       | an immediately useful engineer who learns quickly.
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       | If I were starting out today, this is basically the only advice I
       | would listen to. There will indeed be a vacuum in the next few
       | years because of the drastic drop in junior hiring today.
        
       | mellosouls wrote:
       | On the junior developer question:
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       | A humble way for devs to look at this, is that in the new LLM era
       | _we are all juniors now_.
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       | A new entrant with a good attitude, curiosity and interest in
       | learning the traditional "meta" of coding (version control,
       | specs, testing etc) and a cutting-edge, first-rate grasp of using
       | LLMs to assist their craft (as recommended in the article) will
       | likely be more useful in a couple of years than a "senior"
       | dragging their heels or dismissing LLMs as hype.
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       | We aren't in coding Kansas anymore, junior and senior will not be
       | so easily mapped to legacy development roles.
        
       | austin-cheney wrote:
       | I have been telling people that, titles aside, senior developers
       | were the people not afraid to write original code. I don't see
       | LLMs changing this. I only envision people wishing LLMs would
       | change this.
        
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