EPISODE · Feb 26, 2026 · 12 MIN
Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.
from Polymathic · host Paul Welty
We've been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That's not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew
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We've been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That's not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew
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