Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage

AI has absorbed the entry-level work that used to train junior engineers, so companies are quietly shutting down the only pipeline that produces senior talent. The author argues this creates a coming shortage exactly like the recent DRAM crisis: demand for seniors who can orchestrate fleets of agents is exploding, but supply takes years to build. The fix is to treat mentoring as a hedge, fanning seniors out through juniors rather than strapping nine agents to each one.