Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage (blog.herlein.com)

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Author describes how agentic coding tools have disincentivized the developer training and mentorship pipeline that the software industry has implicitly relied on to produce seasoned developers, predicting that once the shortage is fully realized it could take years to reverse.

The solution proposed is for managers and senior developers to get ahead of this shortage by foregoing the immediate yet shortlived productivity maximization offered by the agent-multiplied-senior structure in favor of longterm sustainability by deliberately facilitating experience fan-out to juniors.

The methodology proposed is based on a successful nuclear engineering apprenticeship program carried out on active service naval submarines.

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Developer of over 20 years. Yeah job offers haven't really changed last 5-6 years. Boom bust. They need us.

Just FYI. I'm thinking this article is completely ai written.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

Definitely has some opus smell in several places. Then again, people who use specific model families at work seem to get infected by their lexical patterns. Not a fan.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah your probably right. Its the:

X, not Y verbiage.

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