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If a junior engineer ships a similar repo to this with the help of AI, sure, I'll buy that. But as of now, it's senior engineers who really know what they 're
by spaceman_2020 1y ago
If a junior engineer ships a similar repo to this with the help of AI, sure, I'll buy that.
But as of now, it's senior engineers who really know what they 're doing who can spot the errors in AI code.
- tptacek 1y agoHold on. You said "really know what they're doing". Yes, I agree with that. What I don't buy is the coupling of that concept with "seniority".
- danielbln 1y agoHave a better term for "knows what they're doing" other than senior?
- tptacek 1y agoThat's not what "senior" means.
- danielbln 1y agoMaybe you could enlighten the rest of us then. According to your favorite definition, what does senior mean, what does seniority mean, and what's a term for someone who knows what they're doing?
- tptacek 1y agoSeniority means you've held the role for a long time.
- thi2 1y agoThere is no real definition of a senior engineer. Just looking at years served seems is wrong imho.
- tptacek 1y agoThere's what "senior"-level developers say about themselves, and there's what's actually generally true about them. The two notions are, of course, not the same.
- ehutch79 1y agoTime is required to be a senior engineer, but time does not _make_ you a senior engineer. You need time to accumulate experience. You need experience, time in the proverbial trenches, to be a senior engineer. You need to be doing different things too, not just implementing the same cookie cutter code repeatedly. If you are doing that, and havent automated it, you are not a senior engineer.
- etothet 1y agoThis is not necessarily true in practical terms when it comes to hiring or promoting. Often a senior dev becomes a senior because of having an advanced skillset, despite years on the job. Similarily, often developers who have been on the job for many years aren’t ready for senior because of their lack or soft and hard skills.
- tptacek 1y agoOh, that's one of the ways a senior dev becomes senior.