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aix1today at 8:49 AM1 replyview on HN

What I'm seeing more and more of is junior folks blindly taking LLM-generated code and including it into their systems, without even trying to understand it or think critically about what it does and where it might break.

Maybe I am living in the past, but it does make me think that they might be depriving themselves of an opportunity to develop key skills.


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pixl97today at 1:41 PM

>without even trying to understand it or think critically about what it does and where it might break.

You are living in a past, but one much farther back than you expect.

People were copying code from SO since it became popular.

People are including node modules blindly before AI.

Most developers suck, terribly. Maybe being on HN is a type of filter that shows you're just a little bit better than the average, but the number of developers on HN is small versus the total number of developers.

Edit: I was copying code out of magazines to get games running without understanding anything about it when I was young.

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