Jack Sharkey argues that AI lets talented engineers work 5-10x faster, making traditional junior roles obsolete. He advises young engineers to skip entry-level positions at big companies and build their own projects instead.
You're doing $1.2 billion in GMV run rate. You've hit 5 billion in creator views. You're at massive scale. Like instead of scaling up team, like you're gonna be scaling back.
I really enjoy working with very talented engineers right now because they can take AI and they can split up their project and get it done in 5 to 10x the time. I don't see a world in where big organizations really need junior engineers as much to do it. That's why my advice to junior engineers is don't even try to fit that mold. Just go build your own shit and you'll probably be way more successful than you ever could have been being a junior engineer at an organization.
