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I have a lot of juniors floating around my co-op and when I watch them use chatgpt it seems it becomes a dependency. In my opinion it's harming their ability to

I have a lot of juniors floating around my co-op and when I watch them use chatgpt it seems it becomes a dependency. In my opinion it's harming their ability to learn. Rather than thinking through problems they'll just toss every single roadblock they hit instantly into a chatgpt prompt. To be fair I've been doing the same thing with simple mathematics into a calculator in my browser that at this point I'm pretty sure I'd fail at long division by hand. Maybe it won't matter in a few years and their chatgpt skills will be well honed, but if it were me in their position I wouldn't gamble on it.

steveBK123 3y ago
Yeah that's my larger point about the guy and the pattern. It doesn't lead to growth. I've seen zero growth whatsoever. And he slacks coworkers like he is talking to ChatGPT too, slinging code blobs without context, example input data, or the actual error he received..
- raducu 3y ago
  > Yeah that's my larger point about the guy and the pattern. It doesn't lead to growth. I've seen zero growth whatsoever. If Chat GPT can solve a problem consistently well, I don't think it's worth the effort to master it. My examples are regexes, command lines to manipulate files, kafka/zookeeper commands to explore a test environment. For me it's a big win in that regard.