I do believe my code review of a junior developer submitting "AI slop without reviewing or understanding it" would be fairly blunt: "If you are just taking AI

I do believe my code review of a junior developer submitting "AI slop without reviewing or understanding it" would be fairly blunt: "If you are just taking AI generated content verbatim without code reviewing it and understanding it, you are providing no value over just having the AI do the work directly. If you are providing no value over AI doing your job, the company can replace you with AI." I'm wondering if the junior employee just isn't educated enough to be using the AI, like they don't know Python at all so they don't understand the difference between "exec" and "import"? But I'm also inclined to think that they should be using it to learn, if the goal of the company and the employee is to move from junior to mid to senior. Like ask another model "can you improve this code", "does this code make sense", "can you explain this code to me", and anything in the code you don't understand, research and learn. But, there are employees who are just going to grind it out, doing "just enough" to get something working, and it can at times be hard to figure out why they are there and why they aren't working towards more. It could be as complex is physical or mental struggles that put "just enough to get it working" at the far edge of their abilities, maybe that literally is the most they can do. How do you learn that and adjust so they can excel within their constraints?