thats interesting, the HMs where I work love hiring juniors (who pass the bar) because they are so AI-native

the more experienced engineers can help with setting guardrails and mentorship, but the juniors come unconstrained by priors on how to use ai in creative ways to solve all sorts of business problems.

> juniors using AI are never going to rise to the level of our current seniors who built decades of experience without AI

this does not seem to be an argument for requiring junior employees to focus on using AI tools

I love how the basic expectation of having a job and the life altering circumstance of not having one factors into this not even a little bit