Dear Editor,A recent report published by VTDigger on a Brattleboro manufacturing roundtable described employers and educators working to strengthen the talent pipeline. One missing measure is whether beginners learn to spot problems that automated systems overlook.In a recent employment study, Anthropic reported that the share of its technical hires who were junior fell from 27% to 9% as artificial intelligence agents took on more work. Vermont manufacturers face different conditions, but the q