We Are All Junior Talent Now

At an Office Hours session, OpenAI Chief People Officer KC argued that the words "junior" and "senior" no longer make sense because everyone's relevant experience fades quickly as AI models advance. He described modern work as a model brain inside a harness like Codex or Claude Code, with agents handling system updates so humans can work with humans, and suggested adding "agent manager" to job titles. He closed by saying emotional intelligence—how you show up with integrity and humility—remains the human differentiator.