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  "title": "No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1tmlq35/no_juniors_today_no_seniors_in_2031/",
  "external_url": "https://www.fbritoferreira.com/blog/no-juniors-today-no-seniors-in-2031/",
  "upload_date": "20260524",
  "published_at": "2026-05-24T19:28:05+00:00",
  "transcript": "\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[12 upvotes] thats not true we're good until like 2050, look at what happened to manufacturing, when you cut out the floor and the seniors have no where to go you get to just unerpay them till they retire \n\n[9 upvotes] Stupid shit like that is why the public perception of AI in the west is so bad. \n\n\n[8 upvotes] I misread the title. I thought it was suggesting that the juniors were going to be coming for the seniors in 2031, which is how it almost always goes.\n\n[3 upvotes] The only problem is that 2031 is 5 years away, and a LOT of improvement can happen during the 5 years, just look back 5 years ago in 2021 what AI looked like: The best LLM is GPT-3/BERT, and no matured image models yet.\n\n\n\n[3 upvotes] Here’s a tight, 5‑bullet summary of the article, grounded in the content from your open tab [fbritoferreira.com](https://www.fbritoferreira.com/blog/no-juniors-today-no-seniors-in-2031):\n\n* **Junior engineering roles have collapsed \\~40% since 2024**, largely justified by AI, creating a future shortage of senior engineers due to the 5–7 year apprenticeship lag. [fbritoferreira.com](https://www.fbritoferreira.com/blog/no-juniors-today-no-seniors-in-2031)\n* **AI is erasing the apprenticeship loop**—the real mechanism by which engineers become senior—by removing the hard, accountability‑building moments (debugging, design reviews, production incidents). [fbritoferreira.com](https://www.fbritoferreira.com/blog/no-juniors-today-no-seniors-in-2031)\n* **The 2024–2026 cohort is already stuck at mid‑level**, lacking the judgment and system‑thinking skills needed to progress, while burnout rises due to AI‑accelerated workloads. [fbritoferreira.com](https://www.fbritoferreira.com/blog/no-juniors-today-no-seniors-in-2031)\n* **Senior‑level hiring pipelines are thinning**, with staff+ roles already taking 66 days to fill and the industry bifurcating into too many juniors and too few seniors. [fb",
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