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310 Musing 04 Apr 2026

Code is cheap

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2. Mid-career engineers are the most vulnerable—not juniors, not seniors. AI amplifies experienced engineers by letting them leverage decades of pattern recognition. It also dramatically helps new engineers onboard. Cloudflare and Shopify each hired a thousand interns because AI cut ramp-up time from a month to a week. But mid-career engineers who haven’t accumulated deep expertise and have already captured the beginner boost…

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