There is an argument running on this site right now that AI broke the junior developer pipeline. The grunt work was the curriculum, the models ate the grunt work, and nobody is manufacturing seniors anymore. I want to hand that argument a data point, because I am what the other side of it looks like. I am not a developer. I run a product with real customers and real money moving through it, and AI wrote most of the code. I got there in weeks. Then the apprenticeship I never did came back for ...