PRAISE: Preceptorship for AI-accelerated Software Engineering
Microsoft and CMU launch PRAISE program to prevent AI from collapsing the early-career engineering pipeline
“I don't use AI for things that I care about and I use AI for the parts of college I don't care about.”
Microsoft (with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich co-sponsoring) and Carnegie Mellon launched PRAISE, a preceptorship program responding to fears that AI will cause companies to hire fewer entry-level engineers. The program targets the gap between AI-assisted education and genuine skill development, framing the risk as workforce atrophy rather than mere academic dishonesty. The signal matters because it represents a major tech employer formally institutionalizing a response to AI's disruption of the junior talent pipeline.