You will have heared something along these lines:

The era of the junior developer is over. Why would anyone hire a junior when an LLM is at a higher level?

I positively can imagine how Big Tech can cut cost this way for a while, not training juniors.

Eventually, they’ll run out of new seniors, of course. You can’t make a sound moral principle from this.

That’s why I believe we enter a new era of small, tight-knit development teams.

Where experienced developers gather and perform, with or without LLM’s, and onboard their next-generation peers and potential successors. Their apprentices.

Because unlike Big Tech, small teams still know the value of good people.

Because unlike Big Tech, the small software shop values individuals and interactions, forming a community of professionals, over processes and tools.