I consider myself a senior developer. I also plan on retiring someday, and I’m guessing I’m not the only senior developer who plans on doing that. In fact, I feel very confident saying that 100% of senior developers will, one way or another, stop coding at some point.
Now, math is hard, I know, but it seems incandescently obvious to me that to be a senior developer, you must first be a junior developer, and if there are no junior developers, then we’ll eventually run out of senior developers. And then where will we be?
Maybe AI will write all the code, who knows? Still, it seems obvious that we need to continue to nurture and grow junior developers into tomorrow’s seniors. It feels silly that I even need to say this.
