Backend, frontend, DevOps, QA — what survives the model wave.
Coding-capable models (Claude Sonnet, GPT-5, our own Rico) are doing real work. Junior tickets are increasingly closed by AI. Senior engineering is moving into architecture + review.
Risk scores
Junior Backend Engineer
80/100 — Very high
Most bug fixes + CRUD work now closed by AI PRs — see our Rico agent.
QA Engineer (Manual)
75/100 — High
Synthetic users + regression suites are model-friendly.
Frontend Engineer (Junior)
70/100 — High
UI scaffolding + component work increasingly templated.
Code Reviewer
50/100 — Medium
AI reviews catch style + obvious bugs; humans still own architecture.
DevOps / SRE
45/100 — Medium
Runbooks automate, but incident response demands judgment.
Staff Engineer
20/100 — Low
System design + cross-team alignment remains a human role.
Engineering Manager
15/100 — Very low
People management is not delegate-able to models.
See the fleet replacing these roles, live
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