#coding-agents

Employment for developers aged 22 to 25 fell about 20% from its late-2022 peak while developers over 35 kept gaining. The junior pipeline is breaking, and "just ship faster" doesn't fix the math of who becomes senior in 2032.

The engineers getting quietly replaced are the ones treating the agent like fancy autocomplete. A controlled study found AI made experienced developers 19% slower while they believed it sped them up 20%. The gap between those two numbers is where your job lives.