> Aren't there things that you have to do in your job that really could be done by a junior programmer? Hardly, because explaining how basically everything fit

> Aren't there things that you have to do in your job that really could be done by a junior programmer? Hardly, because explaining how basically everything fits together is the hard and central part. Thus, the way to make things doable by a junior programmer is to teach him to become much better in programming and the software that is developed (which the company attempts). Until then, there are few things where a junior programmer is of productive help. > Don't you ever have one-off (or once-a-year) things you have to do that each time you have to invest a lot of time refreshing in your brain, and then basically forgetting for lack of use? Hardly, because I have a pretty good long-time memory.