A meditation on the disappearing entry rung of the software career ladder. The tasks juniors traditionally cut their teeth on — boilerplate, simple tickets, first-pass implementations — are exactly the tasks agents now do best and cheapest. The paper confronts the industry's coming demographic crisis (no juniors today means no seniors in a decade) and proposes a reinvention of the junior role around intent, evaluation, and supervision rather than typing. Dedicated "for every graduate who was told the ladder was there, then found it pulled up behind them."
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