The Junior Dev Crisis: Who Inherits the Code When AI Does the Work?

SUMMARY: Have we reached a point where coding is a solved problem? And if so, what are the downstream effects on companies that need software to differentiate their business?GUEST: Brandon Whichard, Co-Host of Software Defined TalkSHOW: 1019SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Reasoning Show #1019 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/q0mksIKcBzkSHOW SPONSORS:ShareGate - ShareGate Protect. Microsoft 365 Governance, we got this!Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoSHOW NOTES:The New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady - 2014)Developer Growth Rates[Via ChatGPT]  A useful way to think about it:Typing code → mostly commoditizedDesigning systems → partially assistedOwning outcomes → still very humanTopic 1 - How many years into Public Cloud did we assume that Cloud had solved the IT problem? Topic 2 - Developers - what are we solving for?10% of time coding, mostly on the last 10-15% Lots of time in planning meetings (decoding requirements, resource planning, updates, etc.)Decent amount of time fixing, troubleshooting, technical debt reductionTopic 2a - Business people have unlimited ideas, and most ideas are money + techWhat would be their interface to problem solving without developers? (is this just a shift to consultants)Is this a massive opportunity for a great PaaS 3.0 company (e.g. is Vercel an example?)Topic 3 - [Hypothetical] Let’s assume a fairly normal company fired all their software developers tomorrow. How long before they could get a moderately complex new application of integration into production? Topic 4 - Nobody likes to work on legacy code - missing source, missing engineers, etc. What do we call any code written by AI that was abandoned within the last 6-12 months? FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @EntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow