Your Definition of a Junior Is Out of Date
The "AI is destroying juniors" panic has the diagnosis backwards. The bar didn't drop. The content of it moved up a layer, and most hiring is still aimed at the version that's gone.
You Win the AI Game When You Start with the Boring Part
Most AI pilots in management contexts fail not because the tech doesn't work, but because the scope is too big to survive its own first mistake. The fix is restraint.
The Org Chart Is a Coping Mechanism
Org charts exist to manage bandwidth, not work. AI is removing the bandwidth constraint, and that changes everything about why your structure looks the way it does.