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Your Definition of a Junior Is Out of Date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.
I write here about AI, organisations, and how work actually functions when you account for the people, the history, and the politics. Not theory. Not best-practice lists. The version that's left after you take all of that into account.
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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.
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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.
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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.