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Published · transcript-backedCaitlin Kalinowski: belief
17 May 2026 Lenny's Podcast Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
“There's the obvious question of what happens if we don't have teams that have senior and junior people, but I think what you find when you actually build these teams is you have to have both.”
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- Caitlin Kalinowski
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- belief
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- 17 May 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…That last bucket is a very common trend on this podcast when we talk about hiring, which is really cool as a counter narrative to there's no more jobs for young people, that junior roles are erased because of AI. Yeah, I don't see it that way. I think we need them. I also think that we need to build new technologists. There's the obvious question of what happens if we don't have teams that have senior and junior people, but I think what you find when you actually build these teams is you have to have both. You must have both. The team size just might be a little bit smaller than it used to be. When this AI revolution in hardware happens, I don't know how that's going to affect the teams. That will be really interesting to watch. So what I heard here is just look for a generalist that can flex based on whatever needs to be done, some mixture of specialists in scaling versus zero to one. And then the best term I've heard for this is cracked new grads that are AI native essentially, that are just doing everything AI first.…
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