🚨 Junior Dev Jobs Are Vanishing

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Here’s everything you need to know this week in the world of full-stack development.

Programming

🕺 The Illusion of Vibe Coding
AI is changing how we code, but not always for the better. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of prompting instead of programming, but skipping the struggle means skipping the understanding. Real software engineering is built through debugging, breaking things, and rebuilding them better. “Vibe coding” might work short-term, but it’s a black box trap. Without knowing why something works, we lose the power to adapt when it doesn’t.

📉 Decrease in Entry-Level Tech Jobs
Landing a tech job with under 2 years of experience is tough, Big Tech wants veterans, and startups want ROI. Even top CS grads are getting iced out. But you’re not powerless. Freelance, intern, build side projects, and find unfair edges in the process. You need to create the experience they won’t give you yet. This blog explores the trend.

📈 Lessons from 7 years as a developer
Discipline is the glue that turns ideas into finished software, it’s what pushes you past the hard parts when curiosity fades. With AI tools smoothing the path, it’s easier than ever to skip the grind, but that grind is where true understanding is forged. Software lets you build the roof before the walls, but without discipline, nothing lines up.

👶 Do Junior Developers Add Value To Companies?
CS grads have doubled in the last decade, but agentic AI tools now write most of the code, reshaping the entry-level job market. Junior hiring is collapsing at startups as one senior engineer plus AI can now do the work of an entire early-stage team. The new bar? Be useful by day 10, not month 6. Large companies will adapt slower, but AI is raising expectations everywhere, fast.

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Front-End

🛳️ Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude
This post is a practical guide to building software with Claude. It covers how to realistically boost productivity by working with AI’s strengths and shoring up its gaps. You’ll see the actual infrastructure Julep uses to ship code daily with Claude, including CLAUDE.md templates and commit strategies. And you’ll learn why writing your own tests still matters, maybe more than ever.

📖 Storybook 9 is here
Storybook 9 turns your UI components into a full testing playground, functional, visual, accessible, and fast. With Vitest, Playwright, and new core upgrades, it’s built for serious engineering. From leaner installs to smarter story generation and tag-based organization, this release is a major leap for component-driven development and testing.

❓️ How Imports Work in RSC
React Server Components (RSC) let you write frontend and backend logic as one unified program, split across environments. It extends the module system with new semantics to control that split. This post dives deep into how RSC works under the hood, and why its model might be simpler (and more surprising) than expected.

🦮 A JavaScript Developer's Guide to Go
After five years in JavaScript, the author spent a year writing backend code in Go, and noticed key differences in syntax, practices, and performance. With Microsoft’s new Go-based TypeScript compiler making waves, this post is a beginner-friendly guide for JS devs curious about Go, comparing fundamentals, gotchas, and mental shifts across both languages.

AI

💰️ LLMs are cheap.

👀 Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client.

⚔️ Why Your AI Coding Assistant Keeps Doing It Wrong, and How To Fix It.

More Tools & Stories

🤯 Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user.

🍎 Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?

🤔 How Morgan Stanley Tackled One of Coding’s Toughest Problems.

Have a great week, see you the same time next week!

- Full Stack Focus team :)