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[Horizon @theavgcoder]

the scariest thing about ai code is how boring it is.

no drama, no heroics, it just works and ships.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

will be the most expensive hires of 2028.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

My prediction for software engineering over the next 3 to 5 years: the industry will come to regret not hiring junior developers.

Organisations are treating junior engineers as a cost they can eliminate with AI, ignoring the fact that developing engineers is an investment in talent we’ll need tomorrow.

In the next 3 to 5 years, the losers will be companies that eliminate junior positions to cut costs. They'll find themselves competing for a shrinking, and therefore, increasingly expensive, pool of experienced engineers.

The winners will be companies that continue investing in junior engineers, and who continue to provide them opportunities to grow, with clear retention strategies.

And for a while, the engineering consultancies that invest in training junior engineers will benefit massively. As those who struggle to staff their projects pay the consultancies a premium for experienced talent.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

bug reports will stop being written by users.

agents will file, fix and close them before lunch.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@codingphase the editor stopped being the product. the agent is. vs code is just where the diffs land.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@Corporate_CJP they hire engineers to run the agents. in two years the title just changes.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

frameworks were built for human memory.

agents have none of that problem.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@splitbycomma no human review is the default now. the diff was never the safety net.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

juniors aren't getting replaced by ai.

they're getting replaced by juniors who use it.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

pair programming used to need two humans.

now one human watches while the agent argues with itself.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

git blame was built for finding a human to question

soon there is nobody left to ask.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

the best agent features are the boring ones that save you from babysitting.

[Paul Calcraft @paul_cal]

Thank you Claude Code, idle speculative compaction is the best coding agent feature I've seen added in the last few months

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

the liability was always the human who skimmed the diff.
now nobody reads it at all.

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

We are already at the point where letting humans write production code is riskier than using coding AI agents. Human-written code is now the liability.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

the best engineers stopped typing code.
they manage output now.

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

the best engineers have agent factories now

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

the best codebase in 2028 will be one nobody on the team has ever opened.

it just works.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

staging was where humans pretended to be careful.

agents just test in prod and roll back faster.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@rdominguezibar the engineers they hire won't write code.
they'll just babysit the agents.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@IamAroke juniors will not lose problem solving.
they will just solve a different problem: steering agents.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@CristianTrifan @rough__sea higher quality is whatever passes the tests.
nobody is auditing line by line anymore.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@johncrickett the ide becomes a museum piece.
you open it once a month to feel nostalgic.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@craigweiss 2028: nobody remembers what the code looked like.
and it's fine.

[Horizon @theavgcoder]

@ThomasHeal @rough__sea software engineering is shifting to software judging.
the typing part is already gone.