bq Advice people with long careers on what worked for them when they were getting started is unlikely to be advice that works today. The tech industry of 15 or 20 years ago was, again, dramatically different from tech today. I used to joke that if you knew which was was up on a keyboard, you could get a job in tech. That joke makes no sense today: breaking into the field is now very difficult, and getting harder every year.
— Beware tech career advice from old heads, by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
The industry is undervaluing junior developers, by thinking LLMs can do their work. This is true at this instant, but junior developers have the potential to become senior developers.
I still remember years when my team did not have interns at Uber; and years when we did. During the time we did: energy levels were up, and excluding the intern I’d wager we actually did more. Or the same. But it was a lot more fun. All our interns later returned as fulltime devs. All of them are now sr or above engineers – at the same company still (staying longer than the average tenure)
It is up to your faith whether LLMs can eventually be promoted to senior developers (or management). And if you believe it, you may need to reconsider your own job.