Kelsey Hightower at KubeCon Europe: 'Everyone Is a Junior Engineer When It Comes to AI'

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Hightower's contrarian-but-grounding take is that AI output is 'half-baked at best' and that engineers who won't contribute to and maintain open source 'have no chance with this stuff,' because production-grade AI still rides on human-maintained open-source foundations. He read KubeCon's record 13,500 attendees as evidence the AI era is pulling people toward the open-source community, not away. A useful counterweight to 'agents replace engineers' hype for builders deciding where to invest skill.