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The Hard Truth About AI: Why Senior Engineers Will Win the AI-First Era
The hard truth about AI nobody wants to say:
The code was never the point.
It's spring 2026. Your company is all about leveraging "AI". Every standup, every all-hands, the same slide. And if you're a senior engineer, you might be wondering if your career just expired.
It didn't.
If you've shipped software for a decade or two, the value you bring was never typing speed or syntax recall. It was everything around the code...
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