Seniors Learned in a Pre-AI World That No Longer Exists. Be Careful With Their Advice.

Experience used to be far more portable. A senior could reach back into their own learning curve and hand something useful forward. Not just the tools they'd used, but the shape of how they'd grown. Learn the domain. Build something real. Let your failures teach you. Do your own research. The specific stack was almost beside the point. The sequence was what mattered, and the sequence held. That…