AI Raises Bar for Entry-Level Employees, Reducing 'Grunt Work'

Goodbye, grunt work. AI is raising the bar for entry-level employees.

Ume Habiba is a junior software engineer at Microsoft. Christian Rodriguez for BI Before joining Microsoft as a junior software engineer last year, Ume Habiba, imagined spending most of her time fixing bugs and juggling other mundane tasks. Instead, the University of Maryland graduate was charged with building a new feature for Azure Networking, one of Microsoft's flagship products. Habiba's miscalculation? Not realizing she would get to offload the kind of grunt work that early-career devel...