A lot in this article chimes true to me. The Enshitification is everywhere. (Discovered via Jim’s notes)

But this is by far the scariest thing…

Here’s the most devastating long-term consequence: we’re eliminating the junior developer pipeline.

Companies are replacing junior positions with AI tools, but senior developers don’t emerge from thin air. They grow from juniors who:

Debug production crashes at 2 AM

Learn why that “clever” optimization breaks everything

Understand system architecture by building it wrong first

Develop intuition through thousands of small failures

Without juniors gaining real experience, where will the next generation of senior engineers come from? AI can’t learn from its mistakes—it doesn’t understand why something failed. It just pattern-matches from training data.

We’re creating a lost generation of developers who can prompt but can’t debug, who can generate but can’t architect, who can ship but can’t maintain.

The math is simple: No juniors today = No seniors tomorrow = No one to fix what AI breaks.

This is an interesting read.

27% of Claude-assisted work consists of tasks that wouldn’t have been done otherwise

This is one of the huge advantages of LLMs for me.

Most employees use Claude frequently while reporting they can “fully delegate” 0-20% of their work to it. Claude is a constant collaborator but using it generally involves active supervision and validation, especially in high-stakes work—versus handing off tasks requiring no verification at all.

This is also good to see in a report from an AI company like Anthropic. Far too many folks are hailing Agentic AI as a death knell for engineers. But this chimes with my experience, and if Anthropic themselves are still working like this I think we can safely say “nope” to that one.

The full article is worth a read.

Thoughtful guidance on using LLMs at work. Feel like I’m gonna borrow heavily from this next time I have to write a policy on this.

(While funny, I hate that folks felt the need to make these, obvs)

The band Public Service Broadcasting put those speeches to music in a wonderful concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s beautiful and well worth a few minutes of your day

This is absolutely beautiful and very relevant to the times we live in, as Richard points out.

This country has in its hands an instrument of incalculable power for good. An instrument that can be given to spreading among the nation the true knowledge of each other. Helpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind.

These newly acquired skills of mankind will move at a breathtaking pace. Broadcasting, which we begin to see now as a worldwide international service, is a step into the future even more dramatic than the devеlopment of flying.

Broadcasting without its responsibilities is nothing. It’s not a way of thought, it’s not a way of culturе, it’s not a way of life. It’s there to serve thought, so that people think for themselves.

It’s there to serve culture in such a way that people will turn more and more to active participation in the arts. Go to the theatre, attend concerts, read books, use their hands. And help to build a community in which broadcasting is only a very small part of a full and satisfying life.

It has helped something living in us to keep alive. And it has reminded us in its graver moments that life won’t last. And that for this very reason, there are things more important than success or power.