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You don’t want 3 Jr devs at the same time because of diminishing returns. Most projects have grunt work where attention to detail is important but experience doesn’t really help much. AI can quickly come up with alt text for images, but ensuring it’s actually useful for someone using a screen reader is a different story.

1 new Jr every 2 years works quite well for a team of 7+ developers.

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And that junior dev will probably leave in 2 years because HR won’t allow you to give them a raise to match their market comp.

But with a team of 7, I can’t believe that giving them all a Claude Code subscription wouldn’t be much cheaper and much more productive than hiring a junior. A junior though with AI is more dangerous than a junior without.

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That’s not really an either or situation, you can have 7 team members with Claud Code and 1 Jr without.

I’ve seen many people stick around for a surprising amount of time while severely under compensated. I suspect that’s why HR does it.