Growing Engineers in the Age of AI
Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman recently published a paper in Communications of the ACM called “Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI.” Their central question is what happens to early-in-career engineers when AI changes the shape of the job? Their thesis is straightforward. Generative AI acts as what they call “seniority-biased technological change.” It gives a massive boost to engineers who already know where to draw boundaries, what to watch for in production, and how to tell good output from plausible output. Engineers who haven’t built that intuition yet are left trying to steer something they don’t fully understand. ...