Group Architect Summit · 2026 28–29 September 2026 · Katowice
Workgroup outcome
T5 · S9 Group #2

The Knowledge
Transfer Gap

“How do we train tomorrow’s seniors
if juniors no longer code?”

Deliverable A mentoring & skills plan.
The printed summit agenda showing subject S9, The Knowledge Transfer Gap, circled in pen.
The subject we picked
T5 — Managing your career and market value along with AI Group #201 / 04
02 — What we found

Three clusters, one direction

Learning & skills

  • The craft is no longer learned
  • Learning culture vanishing
  • Senior–junior delta growing

The junior dev pattern

  • Alone with the AI
  • Cannot validate the output
  • “Do they still need to code?”

Cost & dependency

  • Too much AI dependence
  • Tokens burned unsupervised
  • Not production ready
The Group 2 whiteboard, with yellow sticky notes grouped under Learning Skills Experience, Junior Dev Pattern and Cost Usage Dependency, and green sticky notes under Action Points.
Group #2 board · click to enlarge
The risk

A missing generation of experts in 5 to 10 years.

03 — Table deliverable

A mentoring & skills plan

Pillar 01

Foundations first

Earn the shortcut

  • 1Code before AI
  • Compute principles
  • Patterns & architecture
Pillar 02

Context engineering

Seniors stay in the loop

  • Code walkthroughs
  • Explain what the AI did
  • Pair with a senior
Pillar 03

Critical thinking

The new core skill

  • 2Decide & design
  • 3Validate & verify
  • You break it, you fix it
Comic panel: two developers at a desk looking out over a city. Speech bubble reads same tool, better thinking. A note reads AI helps, critical thinking builds great software.

Same tool. Better thinking.

AI helps. Critical thinking builds great software.

Peer programming DevSecOps Never fully trust AI Be the human in the loop