Last week someone shared that "AI just killed 2 frontend devs from my team" and when the juniors panicked about it most of the replies from seniors were "well, they should have been more valuable." Yeah, that's the spirit. 🙃

Can I pose a tough question to answer: Where do you suppose you came from?

The Ladder Is Real

Every senior dev I know — myself included — got good by doing junior work. We wrote the CRUD endpoints. We fixed the CSS bugs. We copy-pasted Stack Overflow answers and slowly learned why they worked.

That grunt work wasn't busywork. It was the training ground.

AI Eats the Bottom Rungs First

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