AI killed the junior dev ladder. Nobody has a plan for what's next.

We are creating an industry that employs senior engineers but at the same time are actively eliminating the very means of producing them. This is not a hot take. This is the math. The Ladder Is Disappearing Junior dev work has always been the training ground. You build a button component. You wire up a form. You fix a CSS bug and seriously reevaluate your life decisions. Those reps are how you learn to think about systems. Now those tasks are increasingly AI-generated. Simple UI components. Boil