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by franciscomt 1mo ago
I agree with the sentiment. But is that exclusive to junior engineers? Curious if you think that the same problem exists with senior engineers or not.
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
Thanks. How do you think that lowers the value of an intern, can you explain it? You're right that pre-AI that feature would not have been given to an intern (because they wouldn't be able to own it). So pre-AI, customers had a pr
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
They surely cannot. But they can own simple problems end to end.
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
That’s a good point. My whole career has been in product/tech led companies.
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
But I agree that now it’s something people can catch up. The point is that I think it will make a difference if you’re someone that never coded manually vs someone that is (un)learning after having a full career pre-AI. Is not much differen
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
I think it’s an oversimplification to say that using AI for se dev is a trivial skill. You can see it even now with some people chatting with Claude and others running multiple agents in a loop. There’s skill in that.
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
I agree. Although I think that was never the job. Even without AI, the practice of subdividing work into coding tasks was not a good one. AI just made it obvious.
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by franciscomt 1mo ago
Author here. My last post on this reached the front page, and the main objection was that after AI, the junior's marginal value is gone: if a junior just passes specs to an AI tool and PRs back, why pay the salary? That deserved a real
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AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it(franciscotrindade.me)
91 points by franciscomt 1mo ago|144 comments
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by franciscomt 2mo ago
Author here. Good points. You are correct that there is an increasing trend for dismissing the value of junior engineers. And that is the argument: I don't think it makes sense, even in the short term. I'm not saying juniors are m
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Will Humans Still Review Code? The critical question companies must answer now(franciscomt.medium.com)
5 points by franciscomt 8mo ago|1 comments
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Pull Requests Considered Harmful(medium.com)
1 points by franciscomt 7y ago|0 comments
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Accountability in Sw Dev(medium.com)
2 points by franciscomt 7y ago|0 comments