If AI writes the code, what happens to the path into an engineering career?
every · x · 2026-10-31
Every explores a growing paradox: AI is absorbing the entry-level work that traditionally trains junior engineers.
- Andrey Galko, who started programming at 11 and was paid for it before finishing school, now spends much of his time writing prompts — or plain-text loops that reduce the need to prompt at all
- Dan Shipper notes the flip side: AI writing code fast could saturate the app market, and engineers may want retreat plans (learning to cook works — AI still can't make good pasta)
- Core question: when entry-level jobs change faster than how people learn a profession, how does anyone become a senior engineer without a first job?
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