The ecosystem consumes talent and late-stage capital in real time, and replenishes both on a five-to-ten-year lag.

Later in the article, there's a line about a shortage of senior engineers.

Won't AI solve this problem more-or-less immediately? We're already seeing AI-first and AI-native startups that almost certainly only have senior engineers in name only. AI is going to remove this kind of talent limitation quickly, because it's the worst it will ever be right now, and AI can do senior engineer work.

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