The mid-level engineer is the real casualty of AI. Not the junior.

Everyone's wringing their hands about juniors getting replaced by AI. They're worried about the wrong people. The developer most at risk isn't the one still learning. It's the one whose entire job is turning tickets into pull requests. The Ticket-to-PR Pipeline Has a New Operator Ivan Turkovic wrote an essay recently that stopped me mid-scroll. His argument is simple and uncomfortable: mid-level engineers are the real casualties of AI, not juniors. Think about what a typical mid-level engineer d