AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it

An intern at Francisco Trindade's company led development of a long-requested feature, from design to delivery, with AI's help. Trindade argues junior engineers still add capacity by managing complexity, and AI has made their training cheaper and made being AI-native a valuable trait.

AI did produce much of the code, and they owned the decisions.

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