[bushido]

I for one am very excited about where things are going.

I know we're getting fewer "traditional" junior devs, but I'm seeing more and more designers and product managers contributing, at a frequency which was much harder pre-GPT.

In my roles as a head of product/eng, I've always encouraged non-technical team members to either learn coding or data to get better results, but always had limited success, as folks were scared of it (a) being hard, (b) taking too much time to get proficient.

But that's changing now, and fast - and these junior devs are becoming proficient much faster and leading to much business and customer outcomes.

I'm seeing more realistic goals, sprints, etc. I'm seeing fewer front/backend bottleneck, and lastly I'm seeing fewer pixel moving requests going to senior engineers.

As other have mentioned juniors were often unable to code prior to LLMs, and what helped make them better was code reviews, bugs and general mentorship. Those tools to make them better are still available to us.