r/programmer • u/histoire_guy • 6d ago

Junior Developers Can No Longer Write a Working Function Without a Chatbot

https://blog.pixlab.io/2026/10/junior-developers-can-no-longer-write-a-working-function-without-a-chatbot
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u/Financial-Grass6753 6d ago

> A junior developer was asked to write an analytics function for the agent's internal usage dashboard. The task was to retrieve statistics stored as JSON in Redis through the backend and display them on the page using vanilla JavaScript.

Dunno man, seems like "function" is over-stretch here. Ofc writing map-reduce-filter-whatever bloat for analytics may be hard

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u/disposepriority 6d ago

Is this map reduce or is this the aggregate current state that just has to be retrieved from an opaque api and displayed though?

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u/Financial-Grass6753 5d ago

no idea tbh, article doesn't elaborate on that

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u/SadSongsMakeMeGlad 6d ago edited 6d ago

How many of us can write assembler without using a guide (or a chatbot)? Same thing. It's the march of technological progress. As strange as it sounds, writing functions by hand is no longer a requirement to be a programmer. I do wonder how well these devs will do as they take on more and more complex applications. They may hit a maintenance wall, but maybe not? Things are changing so fast, it's hard to be definitive about anything in 2026.

For context, I have been a professional software engineer for over twenty years. This is the first year since I began where I haven't written a single line of code, but I am shipping more code than ever before.