What's this about?
IEEE Spectrum on skill atrophy: as AI handles more engineering work, how do engineers keep the expertise needed to supervise it — especially juniors who may never build the foundation seniors got?
What exactly is the atrophy problem?
Judgment comes from doing the work AI now does. Delegate the practice and you eventually can't evaluate the output — aviation learned this with autopilot: automation-dependent operators lose manual proficiency exactly when it's needed most.
Why is this worth noting?
HN 33 points, 19 comments. The training-pipeline question — where do senior engineers come from if juniors never do junior work — is this year's quiet consensus worry, here reaching engineering's flagship professional magazine.