Why Millennial Tech Careers Face an AI Reset

Elena Verna - growth lead at Dropbox, formerly at Miro, Amplitude, and SurveyMonkey - writes candidly about watching AI erode the career moat her generation spent fifteen years building. The specific discomfort she names is watching junior hires produce in minutes what used to require years of accumulated software expertise. Seniority signals weaken when execution gets automated; the remaining differentiator is judgment and taste, which are harder to credential. She also flags an economic tension nobody in leadership wants to say out loud: if AI multiplies output while compressing costs, the efficiency gains flow to companies, not workers. Similar anxieties are surfacing across product, marketing, and engineering roles at mid-career levels, though few write about it this directly.