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If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

blog.bryanl.devAI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

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Very well written. Love the framing of “productive struggle”, and that it’s our job as leaders to provide those growth opportunities. Makes me think of Outliers and “deliberate practice”. You grow from doing the things that stretch you, not from the same things over and over.

Much like calculators when I was teaching math. You can use the tool as a crutch or an aid. It takes metacognitive skills to use a calculator wisely for learning.