Travis Kalanick (Uber co-founder, now running an industrial-AI company called Atoms) got asked a pretty direct question on a recent podcast: how would you pitch a Stanford CS new grad who's worried software engineering isn't the safe, easy path it used to be? His answer wasn't "learn more AI tools" or "get certified in X." It was: skip the app store. Go automate a two-million-pound machine that moves 35mph carrying gold. The underlying model is retrofit, not...