#careers

Employment for developers aged 22 to 25 fell about 20% from its late-2022 peak while developers over 35 kept gaining. The junior pipeline is breaking, and "just ship faster" doesn't fix the math of who becomes senior in 2032.

The engineers getting quietly replaced are the ones treating the agent like fancy autocomplete. A controlled study found AI made experienced developers 19% slower while they believed it sped them up 20%. The gap between those two numbers is where your job lives.

'AI engineer' isn't machine learning wearing a new hat. It's a different job that starts from a product and reaches for a model, not the other way around. Most job posts are confused about which one they're hiring for, and that confusion is where your leverage is.

The median REALTOR nets $36,600 a year. The median REALTOR with two years or less in the business grosses $8,100. Same license, same market, and the gap between those two numbers is the entire profession.