re: Kid is interested in web development. Anyone know anything about it?

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Sounds like they’ve become a manager rather than slinging code at that point. And architecting is one thing, being a general software engineer also that won’t go anywhere. But if you lean on developing for your bread and butter, get used to using ai just like we got used to using libraries. There’s a reason for the tech layoffs, computers and reuse have begun to turn the curve of the career field. JMO

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I would call them senior developers, maybe. Managers exist to take responsibility for people and results (and no computer program is doing that).

The "dirty little secret" of the software industry is that the bottom tier of coders are accomplishing very little. There are people who mostly just code, but they're not very useful. They're kept around because (at best) management is hoping they'll grow into more, or (at worst) because management wants to get things done and thinks - incorrectly - that just hiring a bunch of developers will help with that.

So, maybe in a shortsighted sense you could get rid of these less-skilled people and replace them with a computer program. It's not like my department would collapse if we fired the 2 or 3 worst developers.

The pain would be more long-term. Someone has to do the hard shite after I retire. And at a macro level, young people are reading all of this noise about AI and deciding not to learn to code. That's just going to make it more difficult to hire people.

The era of the $200,000 / year mid-level Java dev is right around the corner.