#27 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better (Kent Beck)

tl;dr: AI doesn’t just make juniors more productive, it shortens the time-to-breakeven so dramatically (24 months → 9 months) that your failure rate from attrition drops from 36% to 15%. You have to manage juniors for learning, not production and teach them augmented coding (using AI to accelerate understanding), not vibe coding (blindly accepting AI output).