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No, but the goal of mentoring a Junior or Intermediate developer is that they eventually learn this stuff on their own. The value of helping another human grow
by bluefirebrand 1y ago
No, but the goal of mentoring a Junior or Intermediate developer is that they eventually learn this stuff on their own. The value of helping another human grow is worth the tradeoff
AI is a tool, not a human. I'm not about to invest in it the way I would a Junior developer. If the tool doesn't do the job, it's not a good tool. If a tool requires the same level of investment that a human does it's also not a good tool
- jacobr1 1y agoThese factors are now getting baked into the tools. Primarily via prompt engineering, and what might be called "agentic design," which is how much complexity you put into a single pass vs some hierarchical layering of agents and tools with distinct jobs. I've been deobfuscating claude code to watch their prompts evolve as I use it and you an see the difference around how and when it chooses to re-analyze a codebase or how it will explicitly breakup work into steps. A lot of the implicit knowledge of software engineering is being added, _outside_ of the LLM training.