Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI (opens in new tab)

Are carpenters cooked? I went to home depot, bought a hammer, nails, and some wood, and built a mini shelf.

Building trivial tools with AI doesn't mean that devs won't have jobs. It might mean that people won't be able to make a living whipping out brochure-ware web sites for their friends, but that market was just about dead anyway. And maybe it will even be able to handle basic CRUD apps. That doesn't mean the industry is dead, it just means the bar for low-hanging fruit is now hanging a little higher.

I was planning to build 100 mini tools for SEO. The goal was to hire a dev team. I approached an oursroucing agency and they told one tool will cost 1k-4k. So the budget is between $100k-$400k.

I decided to try to do it with AI developers. Tried bolt.new, v0 and then replit. Replit did the work the best. It took me less than half an hour to make the tool I wanted. Now I wanna spend the next 10 days making all these tools myself.

Anyone doing the same?

Creating mini tools is pretty effortless with any AI code gen tool. Maintaining them, adding additional features, scaling, etc. are things that require humans.

I believe every Jr dev should be learning how to use code gen tools as they are likely here to stay, but not overly rely on them, and use them like any other tool.

Companies that are happy with this, er, Automated Search Copy-Paste as a Service will deserve what happens to 'em.

What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs?

How do you get medium/senior devs in the future?

That pipeline is needed.