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Evidence that GenAI is widening the software engineering skills gap
(blog.robbowley.net)
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this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Ditto.
The entire concept behind genAI coding is you can pay a recent grad peanuts to babysit (read: be liable for the mistakes of) a computer to program itself.
I don’t understand the articles breathlessly saying that there’s skyrocketing demand for senior engineers and plummeting demand for juniors. What is the expertise for if AI is so smart?
Or are we finally saying the quiet part out loud — that genAI is making subtle mistakes that take experience to spot?