The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work?

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SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to differentiate their business? GUEST: Brandon Whichard , Co-Host of Software Defined Talk SHOW: 1019 SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1019 Transcript SHOW VIDEO: SHOW SPONSORS: ShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this! Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demo SHOW NOTES: The New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady - 2014) Developer Growth Rates [Via ChatGPT] A useful way to think about it: Typing code → mostly commoditized Designing systems → partially assisted Owning outcomes → still very human Topic 1 - How many years into Public Cloud did we assume that Cloud had solved the IT problem? Topic 2 - Developers - what are we solving for? 10% of time coding, mostly on the last 10-15% Lots of time in planning meetings (decoding requirements, resource planning, updates, etc.) Decent amount of time fixing, troubleshooting, technical debt reduction Topic 2a - Business people have unlimited ideas, and most ideas are money + tech What would be their interface to problem solving without developers?

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