The current workforce lacks senior engineers who can handle complex systems and debug distributed failures.

> we’ll need senior engineers. People who understand systems end to end, who can debug distributed failures at 2 AM, who carry institutional knowledge that exists nowhere in the codebase. Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong. https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things?triedRedirect=true

'Five to ten years from now, we’ll need senior engineers. . . Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing what a DoD-funded workforce study calls “AI-mediated competence.” They can prompt an AI. They can’t tell you what the AI got wrong.' #ai #coding #programming #development https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things