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The Death of the Junior Developer

LLMs are putting pressure on junior tech jobs. Learn how to stay ahead.

He showed me a big writing project that he'd just finished, in which he had spent easily 45+ minutes crafting the prompt, refining it until he had a 7500-word narrative that could serve as a starting point for rewriting, editing, and adjustment. So programming has leveled up into a problem of explaining your situation to the LLM – that is, slinging context, since you'll want to include a lot of information from different sources – and then merging the output back into your code base. My senior colleagues have recently recounted similar chat scenarios in which a more junior dev would have been completely taken in, potentially losing days to weeks of work going the wrong direction.

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