I don't like that analogy. If I had to work with a Claude like junior I would ask for them to get removed from my team - inability to learn stuff, completely unexpected/unrelatable faliure modes and performance.

On the other hand Claudes tenacity, stamina and sustained speed is superhuman. The more capable models become the more valuable this is.

"The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback."

No, but they can take "notes" and can load those notes into context. That does work, but is of course not so easy as it is with humans.

It is all about cleaning up and maintaining a tidy context.