Juniors begat seniors
And so what is a budding software developer to do? Or more importantly, what is a software development company to do when they realize that all those senior developers who are using Cursor are actually going to retire one day?
Up until about 10 minutes ago, those companies would hire these intrepid young whippersnappers and put them to work fixing bugs, writing the boring code that builds systems, and slowly but surely teaching them how systems work by having them learn by doing. One became a senior developer through the experience of writing code, seeing it run, and learning what works and what doesn’t. Eventually, wisdom would set in, and they’d become sage, seasoned developers ready to mentor the next generation of developers.
Well, we are now skipping that part where you actually become wise. But wisdom is actually the critical thing in this grand process. The judgment to know what is good, what is effective, and what is needed is the very commodity that makes agentic coding work. The AI model writes the code, and we seasoned veterans determine if it is right or not.
