All posts tagged with "opinion"
Companies are cutting junior roles and investing in AI, but they're destroying the pipeline that creates senior engineers. Why this 'structural collapse' threatens the entire tech industry by 2030.
A personal reflection on my VNG fresher program in 2012 — the 6 months that taught me more real-world engineering than 4 years of university. From Windows to Linux, C# to Java, SQL Server to Redis.
Most developers start with a simple mental model: frontend does UI, backend does logic. But that binary thinking hides the real craft — the invisible layers, thoughtful defaults, and system-level decisions that separate functional code from great software.
A direct message to junior developers and interns: the best time to learn broadly is right now. Stop restricting yourself to one stack. Embrace being wrong, ask stupid questions, fail fast, and grow faster.
Beyond the fear of AI replacing developers lies a deeper truth about professional gatekeeping, accountability, and what actually makes engineering valuable in the age of code generation.
Why developers over-engineer with excessive abstractions, design patterns, and premature optimization. Learn when abstraction helps vs. when it creates unnecessary complexity, with practical examples.
AI is eliminating the grunt work that trained every senior developer. Without junior roles, we're creating a knowledge transfer crisis that threatens the entire software industry's future.
Entry-level developer roles now demand senior-level skills. AI has eliminated traditional junior work, creating an impossible barrier for newcomers. We explore what changed, why it matters, and how to adapt.
With Tailwind, component libraries, and AI generating styles for us, does learning CSS still matter? Exploring why CSS fundamentals are more critical than ever — especially for accessibility.
As developers rely more on AI, public knowledge platforms are dying. Stack Overflow traffic dropped 78% in two years. We explore how this threatens the future of collective learning and what we can do about it.