u/Affectionate_Pie2780

Saw this breakdown floating around today about the "senior pipeline crisis" and the numbers are honestly terrifying for anyone graduating right now.

It basically argues that companies completely froze entry-level hiring because they think AI makes senior devs do the work of 3 people. But the stats show it's mostly a myth and seniors are just spending 30% of their day fixing hallucinated code instead of mentoring juniors. Which my case and the case of many seniors in my company 😅 hahah.

Is anyone actually seeing companies hire juniors right now outside of Defense and Government? Feels like the traditional SaaS startup route is completely dead. for those who like to read : https://www.salary.run/en/blog/ai-vs-junior-engineers-2026