This is just fairly obvious and I've probably posted something about it before in HN. It's the same reason in-person school works much better than remote, stud

This is just fairly obvious and I've probably posted something about it before in HN. It's the same reason in-person school works much better than remote, students and junior employees need fast feedback while still giving them the room to work independently. Real world example, I gave a junior engineer a bug that should take a day to research and 3 lines of code to fix. If I'm sitting a few desks away and I hear them furiously banging away at the keyboard, I might come by and ask how it's going. Today in the remote world I have 2 options, needlessly badger the junior engineer or wait for a big PR that I'm going to have to reject or ask for significant rework, both of which are going to make that person feel a lot worse than if I had just walked by, asked to grab a coffee and talked about it.