Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
- 18 Sep 2026, 00:00 19 min read There’s a shortage coming that nobody’s put on a slide yet: senior engineers.
- Every company on earth is about to want one who can drive a fleet of agents with judgment — and almost nobody is making new ones anymore, because AI ate the entry-level work juniors used to learn on.
- You cannot conjure a senior in a quarter.
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- 18 Sep 2026, 00:00 19 min read There’s a shortage coming that nobody’s put on a slide yet: senior engineers.
- Every company on earth is about to want one who can drive a fleet of agents with judgment — and almost nobody is making new ones anymore, because AI ate the entry-level work juniors used to learn on.
- You cannot conjure a senior in a quarter.
Sources: Herlein