If You Stop Hiring Juniors, Your Senior Engineers Own You

The 'AI replaces junior engineers' argument ignores basic economics. Junior employees aren't just cheap labor. They're salary insurance, pipeline protection, and the only hedge companies have against a senior workforce that increasingly doesn't need the job.

The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity

AI tools increased code review volume by 98% but your brain still runs at 10 bits per second. The physical toll on senior engineers is measurable.

The Human Cost of 10x AI Productivity

AI tools increased code review volume by 98% but your brain still runs at 10 bits per second. The physical toll on senior engineers is measurable.

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.” I used to wonder, “But you are very senior, why don’t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?” It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything. So it’s quite ironic that I found myself last week explaining to a mentee why I thought a sister team’s project would have to pivot because they’d made a poor early design choice. And he rightfully asked me the same question I had years ago: “why don’t you just tell them your opinion?” It’s been on my mind ever since because I realized I’d changed my stance on it a lot over the years.

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that project will go anywhere, they’re solving the wrong problem.” I used to wonder, “But you are very senior, why don’t you just go and speak to them about your concerns?” It felt like a waste of his influence to not say anything. So it’s quite ironic that I found myself last week explaining to a mentee why I thought a sister team’s project would have to pivot because they’d made a poor early design choice. And he rightfully asked me the same question I had years ago: “why don’t you just tell them your opinion?” It’s been on my mind ever since because I realized I’d changed my stance on it a lot over the years.

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

How Senior Engineers Lose Trust

Why familiar habits start reading as risk at senior levels.

How Senior Engineers Lose Trust

Why familiar habits start reading as risk at senior levels.

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