The 20-Year Tech Debt: Why Burning Junior Talent is a Strategic Defeat

BLUF: If we keep burning junior talent today, we will have nobody to inherit tomorrow. The industry’s loss of patience with entry-level devs is creating a 20-year problem we are refusing to see.

The Vanishing Entry Level

Had a good conversation with fellow geeks Fernando Covatti and Dávid Kőszeghy about AI and junior programmers as we think about talent.

• Everybody is losing patience with juniors.
• Fair enough; they need hand-holding, they make mistakes, and they cost time.
• But here is the question nobody is answering: what happens in 20 years when the current senior engineers are retired?

I think about this because I lived a version of it.