Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI
summary
Claim: entry-level hiring falls sharply — a 73.4% drop in starter hiring — as AI takes on traditional junior work, and other fields report real harms from hallucinations in legal records. The practical response is explicit: teach foundations and code review earlier in career, train engineers in prompt use and source-checking, and redesign tasks so novices get deliberate practice with immediate feedback. Examples: associates already using AI as an endlessly patient mentor and doing larger stories than before.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18AI is changing things
- 5:10Associate engineers
- 5:33Traditional associate work
- 6:33Deliberate practice
- 7:44Three models of deliberate practice
- 8:44Unconscious competence
- 10:12Most expert engineers suck
- 11:08Lead Dev
- 11:36Osmosis
- 11:48Foundations
- 12:42AI coding
- 12:54What we need to do differently
- 13:45Additional skills needed
- 14:08Critical thinking
- 17:52What advice do we need
- 18:11Advice for seniors
- 21:24Learn to surf
- 22:04Thank you
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