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AI Eats the Apprentice Tier. Here’s What Survives.

Generative AI has erased the boilerplate work that used to train junior developers, leaving 67,000 openings unfilled while CS grad unemployment hits 7.8%. The winners will be engineers who orchestrate AI across messy production systems, not those competing on keystrokes.

May 27, 20263 min read
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The new engineering job is verifying AI — and the micromanager is built for it

AI coding agents quietly inverted the senior-engineer job — less writing code, more verifying it. Stefan Wolpers names the new role, the Verification Architect, and nominates an unlikely candidate: the micromanager twenty years of agile coaching couldn’t fix.

May 22, 20264 min read
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AI writes most of the code now. The job that’s left is harder, not smaller.

Google says 75% of its new code is AI-generated, Microsoft 20–30%, Anthropic nearly all. That doesn't shrink engineering — it moves the job up the stack to architecture, review, and security.

May 21, 20264 min read