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| Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I a… | |
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| @sophieschmieg Also is this even true? As a not-dev, if I could use the AI like… | |
| Post #AzDWlQccj7VapfrT28 by [email protected] | |
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| @sophieschmieg I quite often find that working with junior developers is a net … | |
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| @sophieschmieg but can the benefits of training a promising junior dev justify … | |
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| @sophieschmieg (With apologies to St. Vincent)"In Los Ageless the senior d… | |
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| @sophieschmieg Every time you use LLM to #vibecode you are investing in its dev… | |
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| @sophieschmieg Very little of the value of a software developer is in the code … | |
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| @sophieschmieg Absolutely. It can generate code, but it can’t invest in growt… | |
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| @proton_xor @sophieschmieg as a society, writ large, we no longer care about do… | |
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| @sophieschmieg But the SV executive assumes that the formerly-junior dev will t… | |
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| @sophieschmieg It's not clear that the tech is good enough, full stop; but … | |
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| @prism it's not, no. The junior devs I had the pleasure to work with all by… | |
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| You didn't really think the business value of that PR that had more comment… | |
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| On top of that, any junior dev I've ever worked with asked questions when t… | |
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| @wollman @sophieschmieg i think we should also point out that in fact the AI ca… | |
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| @lexinova @sophieschmieg ah. from our labor organizing experience we feel well … | |
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| @sophieschmieg Right. AI tools can replace entry level programmers, and in 3 ye… | |
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| @sophieschmieg The irony of equating an LLM to a Junior developer is that if a … | |
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| @sophieschmieg Indeedhttps://www.superversive.co/blog/rules-of-engagement | |
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| @david_chisnall @sophieschmieg Totally! My default expectation is that junior d… | |
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| @sophieschmieg 100% this. I've told countless new employees (regardless of … | |
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| @sophieschmieg I wish this was my experience, but the organization I was wish t… | |
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| @sophieschmieg In my world, a junior brings new ideas, techniques that aren'… | |
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| @sophieschmieg A long time ago, an interviewer asked about my typing speed. I … | |
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| @sophieschmieg Why should I waste my mentoring effort on training a commercial … | |
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| @prism @sophieschmieg I had This happen to me I had ChatGPT write me a simple b… | |
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| @sophieschmieg the downside of that is the friend of a friend who went to work … | |
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| @sophieschmieg, this is another form of mismanagement of software engineering t… | |
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| @sophieschmieg That last bit is so important! And junior devs challenge what… | |
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| @wollman @sophieschmieg ironically one sure thing is that it will ask for a ris… | |
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| @sophieschmieg It's intentional de-skilling of a whole generation. | |
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| @sophieschmieg If you’re not hiring junior devs, then you’re paying senior … | |
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| @sophieschmieg 20%? That much? *smile* | |
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| @sophieschmieg @dilmandila This applies to many other professions also. Ripping… | |
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| @sophieschmieg tbh an apprentice/junior Dev's interests to me and colleague… | |
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| @sophieschmieg All those AI places either severely underestimate juniors, or th… | |
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| @sophieschmieg There is simply no point in telling an llm about that one custom… | |
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| @fluffykittycat @proton_xor @sophieschmieg Excuse the language, this was more t… | |
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| @sophieschmieg these tools aren't seeing all your tickets, hearing product … | |
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| @sophieschmieg As a senior dev, this is one of my worries - if we replace all t… | |
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| @ireneista @lexinova @sophieschmieg What a lot of these More Bad Advice pinhead… | |
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| @david_chisnall @sophieschmieg being forced to do the work of actually explaini… | |
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| @prism @sophieschmieg eh, it depends on what you’re expecting out of your jun… | |
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| @gnat @sophieschmieg The human is teachable though. If you have a complex probl… | |
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| @sophieschmieg I have yet to find an AI that could do anything but provide a mo… | |
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| @sophieschmieg oops I see you already addressed this at the end of your thread,… | |
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| @sophieschmieg @GeekAndDad Sure, LLMs can replace the work of a Junior Develope… | |
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| @prism @gnat yeah a human usually only makes a given mistake once. Or at least,… | |
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| @sophieschmieg @gnat OMG seriously"Please do this thing.""OK her… | |
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| @sophieschmieg @gnat At the very least you can fire the employee for gasslighti… |