The tasks that used to turn beginners into engineers are now being handed to machines first. Think about how you actually learned. Not the courses. The grind. The small bug nobody senior wanted, the tedious form, the test suite you wrote because somebody had to, the config you fixed by trying things until it worked. That work was boring and badly paid and it was also the entire apprenticeship. You were learning to read errors, to navigate a codebase you did not write, to feel when something w...