The best time ever for juniors

What if AI is the best thing ever to happen to junior devs?

When I was coming up what held me back was not knowing and having to find the right apis, googling for errors, wasting time on the wrong abstractions, missing blind spots. All of this can be done at 10x the speed with AI now.

To be useful (ie. get a job) practice unblocking yourself. Be like an AI agent++. The further you can go without needing help or guidance the more useful you are. Has to be in the right direction of course or close to. So also practice business sense, actually listening to your lead, understanding the company direction, dabble in design, SEO, marketing. Just enough of everything and don’t tell yourself anything is “not for you”.

You can be more than twice the speed of an anti-AI-maxxing senior dev at a fraction of the price. That’s a great bargain.

Maybe it’s the best time ever to be a junior?