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A junior engineer on your team just shipped three features in a week. Your senior engineer shipped half of one. The dashboards say the junior is 6x more productive. The dashboards are lying.

This is the AI skills inversion — a measurement illusion where AI coding assistants make junior engineers look dramatically more productive on surface metrics while masking a deeper problem. The features ship faster, but the architecture degrades. The PRs multiply, but the system coherence erodes. And organizations that trust their dashboards over their judgment are promoting the wrong behaviors and losing the wrong people.