Career

For forty years, the engineering career ladder has looked like this: Junior → Mid-level → Senior → Staff/Principal → Architect It’s a smooth progression. You write more code, then you write less code but influence the shape of it, then you write almost no code and mostly make decisions about how things are built. This ladder is becoming obsolete. Not in five years. Now. The problem is not the ladder itself. The problem is that AI has already done something the ladder never anticipated: it’s collapsed the middle rungs by automating the step where you learn to execute well. ...