“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”Alvin Toffler Open any job board, scroll any LinkedIn feed, sit through any earnings call, and you will run into the same wave of new titles: AI engineer, AI developer, AI strategist, machine …
How to think about the choice when the standard path no longer reliably works. Foreword The path that worked through most of the previous decade — pick any reasonable engineering specialty, get hired into a junior role, learn the rest on the job — does not reliably work in 2026. The market has shifted. The …
Banks are cutting junior data engineers today. The bill comes due in 2035. Reports of technology layoffs motivate this concern, but this article does not supply a named dataset establishing the number or disproportionate junior share. The apprenticeship risk is an argument to evaluate, not an inference proven by those unsourced figures. That narrative is …
Three responses senior technical practitioners may consider as markets shift, with illustrative economics and trade-offs rather than guaranteed outcomes.
Every enterprise AI strategy deck I have seen in the past years contains the same promise: “We will build a RAG-based knowledge assistant that lets employees query our internal documents in natural language.” The board nods. The budget gets approved. Six months later, the assistant gives wrong answers, misses critical information, and nobody trusts it. …
In my last post, I described a time when five people could build and maintain an entire data warehouse. That era ended not because the…
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