What Will New Developers Do When AI Writes the Code?
Microsoft, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman explain a Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon effort to train junior developers in the AI era.
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman ask what a software engineer's job becomes when AI can design architecture, write code and fix problems in seconds, arguing the software developer career is here to stay and that today's junior developers will be tomorrow's senior engineers.
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University are collaborating on how developers learn software engineering when AI does much of the coding.
The post outlines their approach to AI-accelerated software engineering education.