> what is going to happen to the job market during and the years following the crash
Junior programmers will be in demand again. Someone will have to fix the mountains of vibe coded technical debt.
I've already seen an instance of a junior developer being completely unable to fix vibe coded technical debt, even with guidance, because AI analysis is fundamental to how they understand code and they're unable to comprehend what's happening when the AI analysis is not right.
I'm not sure that you're going to fix that with juniors...