AI doesn't replace junior devs. It makes senior devs do junior work.

Here's the deal: companies are firing junior developers and handing their work to AI. But that work doesn't disappear. It just rolls uphill to the most expensive people in the building. The "replace juniors with AI" strategy sounds brilliant in a board meeting. In practice, it's a false economy that burns out your best engineers. The Hospital Secretary Problem There's a well-known pattern in healthcare. Hospitals cut administrative staff to save money. Suddenly, doctors — the highest-paid people