About whether junior developers will be replaced by deep learning within 10-15 years.
Has this happened?
Yes 102 (86%)Not sure 6 (5%)No 10 (8%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether junior developers will be replaced by deep learning within 10-15 years.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Deep Learning is great at making recommendations or classifications, given petabytes of data, but not even close to automatically solving general-purpose computing problems.
For example, I can type an error message into Google, and get sent to the solution, since thousands of others before me have provided the training data. But can I just describe my task to Google and have it produce the solution? Not even close.