alt Hacker NewsI think this is a really important idea. Good problem solvers, in general, are people who are prepared to go in and poke around, to see what happens when you disable this or add that.
The only way I've found to make juniors develop that instinct is to make them do it until it comes naturally--to continually demand they verify their assumptions, test out theories while debugging. If you don't practice being comfortable with the unfamiliar, you lose the knack.
It's fine, of course, to lose the knack to AI, as long as you'll never need to solve a problem the AI can't (or can't access). I don't think that's a good assumption for everyone to make.
> Good problem solvers, in general, are people who are prepared to go in and poke around, to see what happens when you disable this or add that.
you have to do all this when dealing with AI too. The syntax is a conversation vs a strict grammar but you still have to do all the exploration, verification, and evaluation you always had to do as a developer. You have to know how to explain what you want and know when you have it, that's not always an easy skill to learn though.