AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.

"The organizations that figure this out will develop stronger engineers faster than ever, because AI is a powerful tool for deliberate development when someone is actually steering it. The ones that don’t will produce a generation of engineers who can ship features with AI assistance but can’t independently reason about hard problems. The difference won’t show up on a quarterly roadmap. It will show up the first time something goes seriously wrong and someone needs to think their way out of it..."

https://blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-senior-engineer-pipeline/

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AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.

Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.