What I found is the more junior developers started 'vibe coding' resulting in a net decrease in performance, where the more senior ones used it to accelerate their speed cautiously and selectively
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Within 12 months, despite extensive attempts, only the mid level team members remained.
In the thread “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of AI [pdf]”
Helped: Senior engineers used it to accelerate speed cautiously and selectively.
Got in the way: Junior developers started vibe coding, resulting in a net decrease in performance.
I had a team of developers and essentially told them all 'either learn to code with Claude' or you're out. What I found is the more junior developers started 'vibe coding' resulting in a net decrease in performance, where the more senior ones used it to accelerate their speed cautiously and selectively. My conclusion was senior engineers were better because they were used to managing developers and taking on more managerial tasks building 'LLM Soft Skills' and also frankly fixing mistakes, the junior developers were pressured for speed and had their managers to correct them. …