AI vs junior developers?

good thinking!

 "AI Can’t Replace Juniors" - AWS CEO - YouTube  @The PrimeTime

The video challenges AI hype regarding the replacement of junior developers, arguing against common industry claims. Here are the key points:

• The speaker critiques overhyped AI predictions about coding, noting that many claims haven't materialized and that software quality is declining (0:00-1:07).
  
  
• AWS CEO Matt Garman believes that replacing junior developers with AI is "one of the dumbest things I've heard," emphasizing their continued value (1:08-1:43).
  
  
• Garman's reasons include junior devs' familiarity with AI tools, their role in avoiding cost-saving mistakes, and their importance in maintaining the talent pipeline (2:30-4:12).
  
  
• The speaker argues that junior developers offer unique value through exploration, emotional investment, and the ability to understand and solve problems beyond explicit instructions, which AI cannot replicate (5:24-7:56).
  
  
• Ultimately, while some companies may attempt to replace junior developers with AI, the video concludes it will be a mistake (8:17-8:22).

Ilya Sutskever: 2026 AI predictions

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research - YouTube

discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre-training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well.

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

00:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness 00:09:39 - Emotions and value functions 00:18:49 – What are we scaling? 00:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models 00:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence 00:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment 00:55:07 – Alignment 01:18:13 – “We are squarely an age of research company” 01:29:23 -- Self-play and multi-agent 01:32:42 – Research taste

Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025 - YouTube

Ilya Sutskever - Wikipedia

Ilya Sutskever FRS (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning.[6] He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning.[7][8][9] With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.[10] 

Sutskever co-founded and was chief scientist at OpenAI.

EV: Xiaomi SU7: what Apple car could have been?

Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked? - YouTube

Living with Xiaomi's Electric Car - It's Insane. - YouTube

Xiaomi SU7 - Wikipedia