💻 **Microsoft's Russinovich and Hanselman Warn AI Is Hollowing Out the Junior Developer Pipeline**

Microsoft's Russinovich and Hanselman argue in a CACM paper that agentic AI creates an "AI drag" on junior developers while boosting seniors, incentivizing companies to stop hiring entry-level engineers. Entry-level hiring is down 67% since 2022. They propose a preceptor model bo...

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