# I Asked 30+ Engineering Leaders at Apple, Amazon, GitHub and Sony What Junior Engineers Should Do About AI. Here's What They Said.

DevFeed: [I Asked 30+ Engineering Leaders at Apple, Amazon, GitHub and Sony What Junior Engineers Should Do About AI. Here's What They Said.](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-asked-30-engineering-leaders-at-apple-amazon-github-and-sony-what-junior-engineers-should-do-about-ai-here-s-what-they-said-33545.md>)

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Author: Ryan Murphy

Published: 2026-05-05T17:03:50Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Software Engineering Times](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-software-engineering-times.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [advice](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advice.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [junior](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/junior.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports that senior engineers and engineering leaders mostly advised junior engineers to build reliability, ask questions, find mentors, avoid burnout, and learn fundamentals rather than focus primarily on AI.

## Source excerpt

I expected most of the advice to be about AI. Almost none of it was.