“Instead of hiring five junior programmers at the startup where he works, my developer friend does all the work himself with AI.”
New gaming startups in Turkey fell from roughly 200 in 2021 to 30 in 2024. The solo developers get called empowered. The five juniors who would have learned the craft on those teams get called nothing, because they were never hired. Kill the entry level and in ten years there is nobody left who knows how any of it works.