> to become good at the thing in the first place requires a complete reversal of the mindset that would lead one to having wanted to hand it off

Is this true? I can be good at something and be happy to not have to do it anymore I feel

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wcfrobert a day ago | parent | next [-]

My opinion is that juniors need time in the saddle to develop good engineering judgement and taste.

Outsourcing critical thinking is seductive and a slippery slope. LLM lures juniors into feeling productive, and molds them into ineffectual middle managers to be readily replaced when there's a bad quarter.

	▲	witx a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. The mids of my previous team where submitting PRs that at first glance looked good, well documented and with a very clean and professional English. As you started pulling the threads it was, usually, a mess of subtle bugs and over abstraction. But to them it was great, as it was llm generated and they (the mid devs) had no better judgement.

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zelphirkalt a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Though not the other way around. You don't become good at something by handing it off. In that case you either are already good, or never become good.