AI is automating apprenticeship work, shrinking junior engineering roles and breaking the pipeline for senior talent. Meta's optical-fiber training program is a band-aid. Junior engineers may need to start companies or switch fields entirely to find a real career path.
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How do you develop talent when AI is doing all the apprenticeship work? And this is gonna be a big structural problem over the next few years. Yeah. How do you get to senior level players if you don't have junior level players? The, the SWE ladder gets yanked up, but then we see in, in other news, Meta announcing an upskilling program to teach people how to lay fiber, optical fiber in data centers. I think the, these are all just patches or bridges to an ultimate solution, but in the meantime, Certainly if you're a software engineer, you, uh, a junior one, maybe you want to start your own company or shift to some other career ladder that has more of a ladder to it.