Apparently there’s a tension in tech right now: companies are adopting AI fast, and at the same time cutting the pipeline of junior talent. The logic seems to be that AI handles the simple work, so you only need seniors.
I don’t buy that.
At AirportLabs, AI is part of how we work - from business analysis to code to operations. We’re not experimenting; it’s in production.
But we’re also growing juniors, every year, because we’ve been doing this for eleven years and we know what it takes to build a team that lasts. Seniors don’t appear from nowhere. They come from juniors who got real projects, real responsibility, and real mentorship. Juniors that learn to use tools, including tools like AI.
If your AI strategy includes cutting the people who’ll run things in five years, it’s not a long-term strategy. It’s sacrificing the future for short term gains.