Fellow senior developer. Initially I was worried about exactly what you’re worried about with juniors. Now I’m also worried that management layers are simply pushing for higher velocity without giving anyone time to think about a problem. We’re in this nasty loop where one person defers more decisions to a LLM to push their individual velocity up. They then get rewarded. Who care if they don’t know how the code works, it works! The tests pass. More people on the team should do the same or else. Then someone takes it a step further.

It will be very interesting to see how maintainable, or not, corporate code will be in a few years. There could well be a booming industry for people to come in and clean up the mess.

Not likely under Trump sadly

it’s not that unusual for regular skilled jobs to achieve 6-figure yearly salaries.

This is a… very messy and complicated area to talk about and there are plenty of stats and data setsyou can cherry pick to make things sound better than they are. Consider things like median vs average, whether or not you excluded retired folks, etc.

This graphic is a decent toe in the water:

Great read, with some amusing asides.

Shots fired!