Career planning is the polite way to outsource your own evolution. Mid-level is not a position, it is a pause that became permanent. AI made the pause expensive.

Why '% AI-generated' is the new lines-of-code-per-day, and why DORA already solved this in 2014.

The PM builder isn't invading engineering. It's killing the prioritization ritual that was always theater - and the gate that separates it from vibe coding in production.

I bet against Pix in 2021 because I read adoption with the wrong lens. Rogers had the manual on a shelf for sixty years. DHM would have caught it in any roadmap review. Both ignored, both screaming.