Skipping juniors feels smart short‑term, but it quietly sets you up for a painful failure later. 🤷 At @CTOCraft Conference in Toronto, Christine Miao (Founder and Researcher at Technical Accounting) disagreed with the idea that juniors are just expensive output. Why? Because they create mentorship pressure, adopt AI without old habits, aaaand are how knowledge actually gets transferred! So, companies that stop hiring juniors now might save money this year, but in a few years, they'll be too busy, too brittle and too stuck to fix it. We sat down with Miao and dug into this properly, so give it a read: go.infobip.com/3RG1l2F

MCP works. Until you try to scale it. 😅 David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff at @AnthropicAI and MCP co‑creator, explained that MCP isn’t failing, naive implementations are. Context bloat, flaky tool selection, missing retries… the protocol defines the interface, but production problems live outside of it. Read more about it here: go.infobip.com/4etrHhv

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. @GergelyOrosz, author of the number one technology newsletter on Substack @Pragmatic_Eng, says the job market has not been this tough for new grads and junior engineers in the last 20 years. shiftmag.dev/the-pragmatic-e…