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Senior engineers say experience no longer matters

development2025-12-18

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Senior developers posted that experience no longer matters after Opus 4.5 levelled the coding playing field.

Reporting date: 2025-12-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 18, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Two days earlier the same shift was described neutrally as the job. Here it is a grievance.

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Welcome to December 18, 2025

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Engineering becomes supervision

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Engineers describe the job as prompting and sanity-checking

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Senior engineers say experience no longer matters
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2025-12-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-18-senior-devs-experience-no-longer-matters
Claim: Senior developers posted that experience no longer matters after Opus 4.5 levelled the coding playing field.
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- Welcome to December 18, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-18-2025
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