08/11/2026
It seems intuitive to hand off entry-level work to AI. But MIT researcher Andrew McAfee says that companies replacing entry-level workers with AI are destroying their corporate “apprenticeship ladder.”
These seemingly menial tasks — first-draft research, routine summaries, initial coding — are where junior employees learn to think critically and build the skills to become leaders of tomorrow.
The smartest teams are using AI to accelerate their junior employees, not eliminate them. Before you hand a task to AI, ask: am I cutting noise, or cutting a teaching moment?
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