Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

I’ve been pretty moderate on AI but I’ve been using Claude cli lately and it’s been pretty great.

First, I can still use neovim which is a massive plus for me. Second it’s been pretty awesome to offload tasks. I can say something like “write some unit tests for this file, here are some edge cases I’m particularly concerned about” then I just let it run and continue with something else. Come back a few mins later to see what it came up with. It’s a fun way to work.

This sounds scarily like tasking interns, which only makes me empathize more and more with people studying CS. At what point is it even profitable anymore to teach a junior dev and keep them long enough until they can be considered senior