The most useful thing juniors can do now is use AI to rapidly get up to the speed with the new skill floor. Learn like crazy. Self learning is empowered by AI.
Engineers > developers > coders.
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AI has a lot of potential as a personal, always on teaching assistant.
It's also an 'skip intro' button for the friction that comes with learning.
You're getting a bug? just ask the thing rather than spending time figuring it out. You don't know how to start a project from scratch? ask for scaffolding. Your first boss asks for a ticket? Better not to screw up, hand it to the machine just to be safe.
If those temptations are avoided you can progress, but I'm not sure that lots of people will succeed. Furthermore, will people be afforded that space to be slow, when their colleagues are going at 5x?
Modern life offers little hope. We're all using uber eats to avoid the friction of cooking, tinder to avoid the awkwardness of a club, and so on. Frictionless tends to win.
That is quite some wishful thinking there. Most juniors won't care, just vibe-code their way through.
It takes extra discipline and willpower to force yourself do the painful thing, if there is a less painful way to do it.
Because employers famously hire based on skill and not credentials or existence
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