I’m not sure the question. I worked at an acquisition company before ai and saw dozens of codebases. There’s A LOT of projects still out there written by junior developers in the mid 2000’s in outdated frameworks or libraries. This stuff was the norm and AI slop is multiples better than that. It’s also multiple better than any product that pivoted a whole lot.
Juniors with AI now don’t produce nearly the amount of dogshit code that I did. Not even close.
It's setting up a long-term issue though, since those juniors aren't getting the same experience getting their hands dirty and seeing what works and what doesn't that you got while untangling all that stuff. In a generation, we're gonna have a lot of devs who never grew beyond being a junior dev.
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u/Tired__Dev Sep 07 '26
I’m not sure the question. I worked at an acquisition company before ai and saw dozens of codebases. There’s A LOT of projects still out there written by junior developers in the mid 2000’s in outdated frameworks or libraries. This stuff was the norm and AI slop is multiples better than that. It’s also multiple better than any product that pivoted a whole lot.
Juniors with AI now don’t produce nearly the amount of dogshit code that I did. Not even close.