JanProgrammer

A chemical engineer 🧑‍🔬 who switched his career into software engineer 👨‍💻

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Hello everyone,
I will start soon a journey here sharing what I do throughout the day. I will be almost posting everyday to document my journey, and encourage myself and others to continue learning and building.

Stay tuned my friends!

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

If juniors ship with agents, what actually happens to hiring?

A) Hire fewer juniors
B) Hire more, cheaper leverage
C) Seniors only, juniors dead
D) Same headcount, new bar

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Where should coding agents live in a real workflow?

A) Write most of the code
B) Draft, humans own merge
C) IDE copilot only
D) Review/tests, not impl

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

How much production code should agents write on your team?

A) Almost none
B) Assist, I still type
C) Most of every PR
D) All of it, I merge

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Using agents for work you could write yourself is...

A) Selling out the craft
B) Fine for grunt work
C) The correct default
D) Required to stay good

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

A PM's coding agent says the feature is easy. Your call?

A) Trust the AI quote
B) Ask what can break
C) Kill the estimate
D) Let the PM ship it

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

If agents eat the easy work, how do juniors still become seniors?

A) Give them hard tickets
B) Drive agents, own it
C) Review agent output
D) Stop hiring juniors

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Agent opened the PR. Does a human still have to read the diff?

A) Every line, always
B) Skim if tests pass
C) Let another agent
D) Only high-risk paths

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@maruf_ix Thank youuu 😎

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

if we aren't connected and you ship, drop a hi. what's the build?

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@delali Yeah, and they make each other worse. AI-inflated resumes make companies add more interview rounds.

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

What's the real bottleneck in engineering hiring right now?

A) Too few juniors
B) Seniors won't mentor
C) AI inflated resumes
D) Interview process

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@davidgarciab Agreed. Too many rounds can make good candidates walk away before the company even makes a decision.

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@KASHIFALIKHAN94 Exactly. AI makes resumes look great on paper, but figuring out who actually has the skills is getting harder.

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@JeddyHQ Fair choice! As long as the review process is solid, why not let agents do most of the coding?

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Anthropic says Claude writes ~90% of Claude Code. Where should your bar be?

A) Agents write most
B) Half, I write core
C) Agents assist only
D) I still write it

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@WorkFarOfficial I like that approach. Different agents challenging each other can catch more mistakes. Still want a human making the final call for production.

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For production work, how far should you trust a coding agent before a human reviews the PR?

A) Ship if tests pass
B) Review diffs only
C) Full human rewrite
D) Never agent-authored

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

@yolo6f Exactly 😂 Green tests mean nothing if the agent changed them to pass. Human review is still the safety net.

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Will AI coding tools make junior engineers more or less hireable in 2 years?

A) Much more hireable
B) Slightly more
C) Slightly less
D) Basically unhireable

[JanProgrammer @jan_programmer]

Does vibe coding belong in production systems?

A) Yes, ship it
B) Prototypes only
C) Never for prod
D) Only with seniors

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If you had to pick one daily driver for agentic coding this month, which wins?

A) Claude Code CLI
B) Cursor agent
C) Codex in IDE
D) None, I write it