AI Is Killing Entry-Level Programming Jobs. But Could It Also Help Save Them?

TOKYO — Standing between the audience and their lunch, Stefania Druga, research scientist at Sakana AI and former AI research scientist at Google DeepMind, made the room stretch before delivering one of Open Source Summit Japan‘s most sobering talks: a clear-eyed assessment of how AI is undermining the apprenticeship, mentorship and shared knowledge systems that have sustained computing education for decades.

“We’re currently seeing the loss of epistemic agents,” Druga warned during her keynote. For those of you who aren’t…