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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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Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.

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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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