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The Latest from Aaronontheweb: There Has Never Been a Better Time to be a Junior Developer - And It Won't Last Forever
There Has Never Been a Better Time to be a Junior Developer - And It Won't Last ForeverPublished on August 22, 2025 in 11 minutes to read Everyone in tech is convinced that AI will eliminate junior developers first. “Why hire a junior when AI can write code?” they ask. The prevailing wisdom is that entry-level developers are most vulnerable to automation. They’re dead wrong. I wrote “The Future of AI Belongs to Experienced Operators with Good Taste” a few months back and that’s still absolutely true. But there’s a massive plot twist most people are missing: AI coding assistants aren’t just productivity tools - they’re the great equalizer. Junior developers with the right attitude and intentional practice are positioning themselves to outpace expensive, slow senior developers who refuse to adapt. The window is open right now, but it won’t stay open forever. |
Aaronontheweb
I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is Not Last week I shipped a feature that would have taken me ~4 days in about 45 minutes: 8 parallel solutions explored, 1 verified, reviewed, deployed. That's not vibe coding. It's a process. I'm calling it Software 2.0. Software 1.0 is software you specify. Software 2.0 is software you verify. I just published a long essay formalizing how I've been using LLMs to ship production software - not as a novelty, but as a disciplined engineering process...
Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance Published on January 26, 2026 in 7 minutes to read “I have a great idea: let’s create a five-layer deep inheritance hierarchy with a universal base class that every domain object inherits from! That way, when requirements inevitably change, we’ll only need to touch… everything.” This is episode two of my Why Your Software Sucks video series, and today we’re talking about inheritance - specifically, how deep inheritance hierarchies turn your codebase into...
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child? Published on November 30, 2025 My third child arrives in a week. The cost? $40,000. Out of pocket. Cash. Not because something went wrong medically. That's just the price of admission for a self-employed entrepreneur who wants to grow a family while running a small business in America. $25,680 in annual premiums + $14,300 deductible = the privilege of bringing a new taxpayer into this world. I wrote about this because Michael Green's viral...