Two observations:

- If I had to iterate as much with a Jr dev as CC on not highly difficult stuff ("of course, I'll just do X!" then X doesn't work, then "of course, the answer is Y!" then Y doesn't work, etc.) I probably would have fired them by now or just say "never mind, I'll do it myself" .

- On the other hand a Jr dev will (hopefully) learn as they go, get better each time, so a month from now they're not making the same mistakes. An LLM can't learn so until there's a new model they keep making the same mistakes (yes, within a session they can learn -- if the session doesn't get too long -- but not across sessions). Also, the Jr dev can test their solution (which may require more than just running unit tests) and iterate on it so that they only come to me when it works and/or they're stuck. Just yesterday, on a rather simple matter, I wasted so much time telling the LLM "that didn't work, try again".