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The Death of the Junior Developer (sourcegraph.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Despite the title, this article chronicles how GPT is threatening nearly all junior jobs, using legal work as an example. Written by Sourcegraph, which makes a FOSS version of GitHub Copilot.

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[–] dandi8@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except "mass" is not useful by itself. It's not a chair factory where more people equals faster delivery, just like 9 women won't deliver a baby in a month. I wish companies understood this.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

You're oversimplifying things, drastically.

Corporations don't have one projects, they have dozens, maybe hundreds. And those projects need staffing.

It’s not a chair factory where more people equals faster delivery

And that's the core of your folly - latency versus throughput. Yes, putting 10 new devs in a project won't increase speed magically. But 200 developers can get 20 projects done, where 10 devs only finish one.