Engineering
2 essays on engineering.
How to Train Junior Engineers When the Shortcut Machine Is Always On
The gap between a senior and a junior is not years or syntax. It is a mental model — the connected understanding that lets you reason in contexts you have never seen. You do not build it with a checklist. You build it by constructing systems and by witnessing a senior reason out loud. In an age where seniors reason alongside AI, their transcripts are the apprenticeship artifact we have always lacked.
The Pipeline AI Can't Fill
Senior engineers burn out. Junior engineers get answers from AI instead of building judgment. The pipeline that used to produce engineers who could think about systems — not just write code for them — is breaking at both ends, and AI amplifies the gap instead of closing it.