Matt Pocock: AI ate tactical programming, so juniors need low-stakes strategic work
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-09-04
Matt Pocock argues AI has eaten tactical programming, so junior developers need strategic experience in a low-blast-radius environment. His playbook: give juniors ownership of a large chunk of (ideally internal-tool) work, keep stakes low but nonzero, let them move fast with the same AI budgets as seniors, and debrief failures together to pull learnings upward. In short: hire juniors, give them work that matters, watch them fail, pick them up.
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