Bottom of the barrel consultancy shops will hire as cheap as possible. E.g. some liberal arts major whose only coding experience is a 2 week 'bootcamp'.
They will sell them as 'junior SE' on the first 2 projects, 'medior SE' on the next and then they'll be 'senior SE' within 18 months tops of leaving bootcamp.
The projects by these shops are nearly always troubled, requiring many (customer paid in change requests) reworks before (if ever) getting in production.
They seldom are hired to do projects for a client twice, but it's a lemom's market and there's plenty of fish in the sea.
So what happens with these shops is that their SE's will rely even more than average on AI assistants, and deliver a v0.1 faster, but with 10x more code and holes than before, taking even longer to get in production but given lemons and fish have not changed they'll still hire, now even cheaper out of 'prompt engineering bootcamp'
They will sell them as 'junior SE' on the first 2 projects, 'medior SE' on the next and then they'll be 'senior SE' within 18 months tops of leaving bootcamp.
The projects by these shops are nearly always troubled, requiring many (customer paid in change requests) reworks before (if ever) getting in production.
They seldom are hired to do projects for a client twice, but it's a lemom's market and there's plenty of fish in the sea.
So what happens with these shops is that their SE's will rely even more than average on AI assistants, and deliver a v0.1 faster, but with 10x more code and holes than before, taking even longer to get in production but given lemons and fish have not changed they'll still hire, now even cheaper out of 'prompt engineering bootcamp'