Some says AI hurt job security for SWE and there are far less junior position opening. I don’t think so.

After 4 years of ChatGPT arrival and the current status of AI assisted coding, none of my peers has any imminent job security issue so far even they took 6 weeks to create a GET endpoint on node js and another 6 weeks to create a single React tab page. Others also don’t fear about layoff even they still saving file by clicking on visual studio menu rather than ctrl-S, never use CLI or built-in tools in their IDE to work faster.

This is because our work enviornment protected us very well. The UK left no one behind is good for team work, with the cost of punishing those run faster, failed to improve the slow ones to run faster.

This is because in culture here, productivity is not the criteria for evaluating an employee, small talks, politics, relationships, boot-lickings are.

The fall of enterprise will evolove like below:

• They need 100 staff to build a product.
• The mediocre mouse based engineers cost so much for an enterprise.
• Good engineers pre AI era will be 3x productive then before, and 10x productive than mediocre engineers.

By mediocre it means those engineers has 1 year experience repeating 10 times rather than having 10 years experiences. They are weak and cannot solve problems alone before the AI era, depends on AI for everything in the AI era, never question but copy and paste whatever AI generated without the ability to explain what are they.

There is no difference between such an senior engineer with a fresh grad. Younger engineer grow up and lived in AI since their college, they use AI better and more productive than those expensive mediocre dev which high salary based on accumulated years staying in the same position.

If a company have a good Staff level engineer that acts as a multiplier, he/she will able to train up a team of unstoppable super productive AI-assisted elite developers, with a fraction of cost of the bulky low productive team.

A small team with a few excellent product and engineer who can leverage AI produce a smaller, much better product which can deliver much faster to gain a few % customer from an enterprise that hires 100 mediocre staff team.

More and more small but nice product company will be raised from Talented dev and product owners that starts grouping themselves. Some of them maybe even the company of One. To escape from toxic enviornments that prioritise relationship, never-ending chit-chat, jealous and gaslighting high performers over knowledge and performance.