{"id":178276,"date":"2025-09-24T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:50:09","slug":"demand-for-junior-developers-softens-as-ai-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178276\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for junior developers softens as AI takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFour years ago, I was that junior developer writing boilerplate CRUD code, proud of every clean PR I merged,\u201d he says. \u201cToday? I watch new grads struggle to land their first job, not because they\u2019re unskilled, but because companies ask, \u2018Why hire a junior for $90K when GitHub Copilot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudeagle.ai\/blogs\/github-copilot-pricing-guide#:~:text=GitHub%20Copilot%20starts%20at%20%2410%2Fmonth%20for%20individuals%20and,real-time%20AI%20coding%20help%20directly%20in%20supported%20IDEs.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">costs $10<\/a>?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Agrawal sees a future role for developers who can work with AI. The best software engineers won\u2019t be the fastest coders, but instead, they will be those who know when to distrust AI, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt my company, my role has shifted from just coding to validating AI output, checking for edge cases, security risks, and logic gaps that AI can\u2019t catch,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to out-code AI. I\u2019m making myself essential by leading it with judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFour years ago, I was that junior developer writing boilerplate CRUD code, proud of every clean PR I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-178276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}