A hot take on the quiet reshuffle happening in engineering teams — and why "I built it myself" is starting to sound like "I wrote it in assembly."
I sat in a code review last week where a staff engineer with 14 years of experience got outshipped by a junior with 8 months.
The junior wasn't smarter. She wasn't working longer hours. She had Claude Code, an MCP server wired to their internal docs, and zero ego about any of it.
The staff engineer had opinions about "real engineering."
Guess whose PR merged first.
The reshuffle nobody wants to talk about
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