Why Are Software Developers Still in Demand?
2026년에도 소프트웨어 개발자 수요는 여전히 높지만, 신입 개발자 채용은 급감하고 있다. AI가 CRUD 작업 등 초급 개발자의 역할을 대체하면서 신입 개발자 시장은 사실상 붕괴되었고, 중견 및 시니어 개발자들이 레거시 시스템 유지보수와 복잡한 문제 해결에 집중하고 있다. 특히 COBOL 등 레거시 코드 유지보수 능력을 가진 시니어 개발자의 수요가 높으며, AI는 시니어 개발자의 생산성을 2~3배 높이는 도구로 작용한다. 그러나 신입 개발자 부족으로 인해 10년 후 시니어 개발자 후계자가 없어 업계 전반에 큰 변화가 예상된다.
https://galratner.substack.com/p/why-are-software-developers-still
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The 'AI replaces junior engineers' argument ignores basic economics. Junior employees aren't just cheap labor. They're salary insurance, pipeline protection, and the only hedge companies have against a senior workforce that increasingly doesn't need the job.
The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically
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When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.” I used to wonder, “But you are very senior, why don’t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?” It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything. So it’s quite ironic that I found myself last week explaining to a mentee why I thought a sister team’s project would have to pivot because they’d made a poor early design choice. And he rightfully asked me the same question I had years ago: “why don’t you just tell them your opinion?” It’s been on my mind ever since because I realized I’d changed my stance on it a lot over the years.
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/
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When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.” I used to wonder, “But you are very senior, why don’t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?” It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything. So it’s quite ironic that I found myself last week explaining to a mentee why I thought a sister team’s project would have to pivot because they’d made a poor early design choice. And he rightfully asked me the same question I had years ago: “why don’t you just tell them your opinion?” It’s been on my mind ever since because I realized I’d changed my stance on it a lot over the years.
“Mistakes I See Engineers Making In Their Code Reviews”, Sean Goedecke (https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-code-reviews/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45701404
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ngei5p/mistakes_i_see_engineers_making_their
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How Senior Engineers Lose Trust
https://tahahussain.substack.com/p/how-senior-engineers-lose-trust
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