Post by Percime Technologies

A CS degree now has worse employment odds than a fine arts degree. That’s not a hot take. That’s Federal Reserve data. And it’s the first domino in a crisis that will hit every engineering team by 2031. No juniors hired today → no mid-levels in 3 years → no senior engineers in 5 → a catastrophic leadership vacuum in 10. The convenient story is "AI replaced juniors." The real story is rate hikes killed training budgets and AI took the blame. Edition 11 of Shipped is the most important one we’ve written. If you lead an engineering team, read this. Below ↓