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878 Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/24/2026 12:01 EDT

Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base.

The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of which is that agentic coding assistants "give senior engineers an AI boost... while imposing an AI drag on early-

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