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The "Broken Rung" problem: If AI does all the tasks juniors used to learn on, how do you become Senior? Entry-level devs in 2026 are AI babysitters, not coders.
The skill isn't writing syntax anymore. The skill is spotting the logic flaw in AI-generated code before it ships. Here's why Systems Thinking beats Prompt Engineering.
77% of digital nomads burn out within 2 years. I tried the beach laptop life for 18 months—constant travel, 3AM timezone calls, sand repairs. Built a $600 home office and 10x'd my output.
$2,000 cohort courses have 95% content overlap with free resources like Harvard CS50 and MIT OCW. You're paying for scarcity marketing, peer networking with unemployed juniors, and a Slack channel.