alt Hacker NewsSeems like a decent balance to me. They note that there's no substitute for experiential learning. The harder you work, the more you get out of it. But there's a balance to be struck there with time spent.
What I do worry about is that all senior developers got that experiential education working hard, and they're applying it to their AI usage. How are juniors going to get that same education?
This is also what I often wonder.
Imho, AI is a multiplier and it compounds more as seniority grows and you know how to leverage it as a tool.
But in case of juniors, what does it compound exactly?
Sure, I see juniors being more independent and productive. But I also see them being stuck with little growth. Few years ago in an year, they would've tremendously grow at least on the technical side, what do they get better at now? Glueing APIs via prompting while never even getting intimate with the coding aspect?