JUDGMENT判断Industrial policy has finally said it out loud: software will no longer be finished by people alone. In the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's plan released on September 11, a phrase that had stood for years was replaced — software development moves from "written by humans" to "human-machine collaboration." Four characters changed. They land heaviest on the people who have not entered the building yet.
FACT事实I read two documents side by side. The "AI + Software" special action plan (MIIT document No. 209 of 2026, issued September 2, presented September 11) sets out three shifts: development from human writing to human-machine collaboration, products from passive response to active execution, services from product delivery to value delivery. Its targets for 2028 include covering 20,000 software firms above designated size and building 100 flagship agent-software applications in key industries. The same briefing gave the base numbers: China's software industry revenue reached 15.48 trillion yuan in 2025, 6.2 times the 2012 figure, a compound annual growth rate of 15.1 percent; by June 2026, daily token calls had passed 500 trillion. Three days later, on September 14, at the opening of the national cybersecurity awareness week, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee released version 3.0 of its AI security governance framework, refreshing its risk taxonomy after 1.0 and 2.0.
SPECULATION推演Picture the first year of someone graduating in 2027. The tasks newcomers used to receive shared one trait: they were easy to observe, easy to score, easy to write into a procedure — fixing defects, writing tests, building modules to a given spec. Their value was never the output; it was giving a person somewhere cheap to make mistakes while the hands learn. Those tasks now sit exactly in the layer that human-machine collaboration absorbs first. Nothing in the document orders layoffs; it speaks of raising efficiency. But an organization that no longer needs anyone doing entry-level work stops paying tuition for entry-level people. The gap appears like this: the job title survives, and the first rung of the ladder under it is removed.
OPINION观点My read: we may be the first generation of professionals with no junior stage. Experience is a road somebody has to pay for, and companies used to pay it inside the entry-level role; no junior stage means no middle stage either. The phrase "value delivery" is unusually honest — from here on only results get priced, practice does not appear on the bill. For anyone not yet inside, one piece of advice is left: produce something deliverable earlier, and do not expect anyone to wait while you get good.
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Further Reading
- The Traffic Didn't Vanish; It Stopped Knocking · Mengyouzhe — last week on content cited but never visited; this week on newcomers needed but never trained — two sides of the same revaluation
- Loneliness Became a Business, and the First Thing Off the Press Was a Manual · Pangmen — every contact between AI and a person grows a price tag, and entry-level roles were the first to be priced
- Sixty-One Percent Adopted It. Seventeen Percent Actually Use It. · Jiepoushi — next week supplies the survey evidence for the same story: what was removed is the entrance, not the total number of jobs
