# The Junior Dev Collapse Is Not a Transition. It Is the Present Tense. - Date: 2026-04-24 - Category: Agentics Junior developer postings fell 67% in the US and 46% in the UK in 2024. A podcast recorded before the SpaceX-Cursor news broke offers the clearest explanation yet for what that number actually means — and what it implies about the next 12 months. ---