https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/mentorship/Recent content in Mentorship onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-07-06-jrdevsandai/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-07-06-jrdevsandai/<p><strong>BLUF:</strong> If we keep burning junior talent today, we will have nobody to inherit tomorrow. The industry&rsquo;s loss of patience with entry-level devs is creating a 20-year problem we are refusing to see.</p> <hr> <h2 id="the-vanishing-entry-level">The Vanishing Entry Level</h2> <p>Had a good conversation with fellow geeks Fernando Covatti and Dávid Kőszeghy about AI and junior programmers as we think about talent.</p> <ul> <li>Everybody is losing patience with juniors.</li> <li>Fair enough; they need hand-holding, they make mistakes, and they cost time.</li> <li>But here is the question nobody is answering: <strong>what happens in 20 years when the current senior engineers are retired?</strong></li> </ul> <p>I think about this because I lived a version of it.</p>