I think so but not for the reason that you think.

See, most closed source software really just pisses me off of ideological reasons, I just like to tinker with things and just having the possibility to do so by being provided the source code really helps my mind feel happy I guess.

So I "vibe coded" a game that I used to play and some projects that I was curious about and I just wanted to tinker too. sure the game and code have bugs.

Also with the help of AI, I feel like I can tinker about things that I don't know too much about and get a decent distance ahead. You might think that I am an AI advocate by reading this comment, but quite the contrary, I personally think that this is the only positive quality that AI helped in quite substantially.

But at what cost? The job market has sunk a large hole and nobody's hiring the junior devs because everybody feels better doing some AI deals than hiring junior devs.

My hunch is that senior devs are extremely in demand and are paid decently and so will retire on average early too. Then, there would be a huge gap b/w senior and juniors, because nobody's hiring the junior engineers now, so who will become the senior engineers if nobody got hired in the first place. I really hope that most companies actually realize that the AI game is quite a funny game really, most companies are too invested into it to realize that really, open source AI will catch up and there is just no moat with AI and building with AI or just doing stuff with AI isn't that meaningfully significant as they think it is as shown by recent studies.

> that senior devs are extremely in demand

Is this true? I am not seeing salaries rising, the demand seems to be met. But maybe I'm wrong.

Sorry I guess, I may have been incorrect in that regards. I actually just meant as in comparison to juniors really. And I personally felt that way from what I've heard from all the people, I am not sure too about salary rising but still I always thought that seniors are getting on with more and more responsibility since juniors aren't getting hired and so I thought that they were more compensated and I am pretty sure that I heard it somewhere and I think I just repeated that.

Also maybe I felt this way because of 100 Million $ and the 30 Billion $ acquisition by Zuckerberg I guess

I might ask AI (Oh the irony) and here is the chat https://chatgpt.com/share/68756188-d374-8011-9f23-6860d6b1db... and here is one of the major source of this I suppose

https://www.hackerrank.com/blog/senior-hiring-is-surging-wil...

And I would like to quote a part from the hackerrank ie. Taken in isolation, this might suggest a cautious but healthy rebound. But viewed through a 2025 lens, a deeper pattern emerges: teams are leaning hard into experience, and leaving early-career talent behind.