The junior developer pipeline is drying up and nobody's panicking enough

The fact that we're slowly removing the apprenticeship layer and passing it off as "productivity gains" should be far more alarming. Just imagine. The kind of work that is best suited for AI, such as boilerplate code, simple CRUD endpoints, and basic component wiring, is actually similar to the work that helps in training junior developers. It was not that we were working on those tasks because they were difficult, but rather because they are the tasks that build our understanding of how softwar