AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Data from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab indicates a significant decline in employment for junior software developers, suggesting that AI agents are increasingly automating entry-level coding tasks. While overall programming roles are shifting, the market for young workers has been disproportionately impacted by the rise of agentic AI.
In early 2025 I predicted that AI will create many, many more programmers , and that new programming jobs would look different. In March I checked in and found startups substituting compute for labor at record rates , with the wave of new jobs nowhere in sight. This post is the next check-in, and I have good news and bad news.
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