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Today, there are two kinds: 1) the ones who take a marginally smaller amount of time because they’re busy learning, testing and self reviewing, and 2) the ones who watch Twitch or Youtube videos while Claude does the job and come to me after two hours with “done, what’s next” while someone has to comb through the mess
whstl on Hacker News
In the thread “AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder”
Got in the way: Junior developers using AI to produce unreviewed, messy code.
… I was able to see them struggling, they would learn, they would communicate and get frustrated by their own solution, then iterate. Today, there are two kinds: 1) the ones who take a marginally smaller amount of time because they’re busy learning, testing and self reviewing, and 2) the ones who watch Twitch or Youtube videos while Claude does the job and come to me after two hours with “done, what’s next” while someone has to comb through the mess. Leadership might see #2 and think they’re better, faster. …