Should I learn Magento as a junior developer in 2026?

Cautious yes, if you understand the path is harder than 2020. Routine Magento dev work is being automated by AI, which kicks away the apprentice ladder. To make junior → senior in 2026-2030, you need to: (a) treat AI as your tutor, not your colleague, learn the platform deeply, don’t just paste its output; (b) specialize early in a regulated or B2B niche where human judgment still owns the trust; (c) build public work that demonstrates judgment, not just shipped output. The pure “take a ticket, write the code” junior path is closing. The “become a Magento + Hyvä + AI domain expert” path is wide open, but it’s steeper.