Revenge of the Junior Developer

Agents are coming. Vast fleets of them. Not just coding agents. Agents are arising everywhere, across entire businesses and production tech processes. I talked to a big customer this morning who has already built dozens to hundreds of “AI task machines” – custom-built agents that perform specific parts of their giant workflows. The future is now. Agents are here.

If you’re looking for a call to action, then I give the same advice to both humans and companies: Switch to chat. Ditch completions. Stop writing code by hand. Learn how validation and verification work in the new world. Familiarize yourself with the space, and follow the state of the art. Stop whinging and turn this into an engineering exercise. Stay on top of it. You can do it.

Steve Yegge on Revenge of the Junior Developer

I’ve been using Claude Code a lot, and it’s far more useful than the previous generation of AI coding tools. It’s allowed me to quickly write code, fix issues, and deploy things that I previously had no idea how to even do.

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