"While businesses aren't investing, it's hard to make much progress in the software world," Fowler said. "And so we have this weird mix of no investment, pretty much depression in the software industry, with an AI bubble going on."
I also plan on retiring someday, and I'm guessing I'm not the only senior developer who plans on doing that. In fact, I feel very confident saying that 100% of senior developers will, one way or another, stop coding at some point. Now, math is hard, I know, but it seems incandescently obvious to me that to be a senior developer, you must first be a junior developer, and if there are no junior developers, then we'll eventually run out of senior developers.
"That's like, one of the dumbest things I've ever heard," he said. "They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools." "How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything," he added. "My view is that you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have."
They come in with the latest learnings from colleges, diverse backgrounds, and a willingness to experiment. The folks that are younger in career bring a new perspective to the team and say, 'why don't we try this?' or 'I want to incubate this idea'.