Why Tomorrow's Best Devs Won't Just Code - They'll Curate, Coordinate And Command AI
VentureBeat, Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers - such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups - are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer.
This is not just an upgrade to speed and efficiency - we are looking at a serious structural change here. So where does that leave entry-level developers? And, speaking more broadly, where does it leave the software industry as a whole?