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Junior developer jobs didn't disappear. The bar for them quietly moved, and nobody sent the memo.

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Every other post this year says the same thing: the junior developer job is dead, AI killed it. The numbers look brutal enough to believe it — junior postings down around 60%, roughly 150,000 tech workers laid off in 2026, entry-level hiring falling for a third straight year. But there are still ab…

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  1. 2026-09-28 18:23 · DEV Community — AI
    Junior developer jobs didn't disappear. The bar for them quietly moved, and nobody sent the memo.

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