AI handles the easy stuff. So every junior now starts where seniors used to be
Four and a half hours with the IT teachers of ZSLiT nr 1 on Wiśniowa in Warsaw, and an honest conversation about what is broken in how we teach people to program.
It was the sharpest thing anyone said all afternoon, and it came from a teacher, not from us: AI now handles the easy stuff, so the work that used to be a junior's first two years has quietly disappeared. Which means a graduate's day one now looks like what a senior's day used to look like.
We did not come to lecture. We came to ask IT teachers what actually stands in their way, and they told us plainly.
They are not fighting AI
That was the part that gave us hope. Not one teacher in the room wanted the tools banned. They were already asking the harder and more useful questions: how do we teach with it, and which of our strengths does it actually amplify?
The gap between what industry does and what education tests is, we think, one of the most urgent problems in tech, and it is not going to be closed by a policy memo. So the workshop ended with a commitment rather than a conclusion: we co-build an AI-integrated programming curriculum with these teachers, as a practical framework that can move as fast as the tooling does.
Because the future of programming education is not about keeping models out of the classroom. It is about teaching students to think like architects instead of typists.
Thank you to the Wiśniowa teachers for open minds and straight answers, and to Robert and Agata for running the afternoon where this whole partnership started.