The Junior Developer Pipeline Problem: Where Do Tomorrow's Seniors Come From?
The views in this post are my own personal reflections on the industry as a whole, written in my own time. They are not about any specific employer, team, or colleague, past or present. Almost every confident take on the future of software engineering assumes a particular kind of person at the centre of it. A senior. Someone who can read a generated diff and feel which line is wrong before they can articulate why. Someone with taste, judgement, and a working theory of the system in their head. Someone who can curate, review, and steer fleets of agents. ...