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The junior is probably providing negative value, since it would be more efficient for me just to talk to Claude
mikeocool on Hacker News
In the thread “Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have”
Got in the way: Juniors submit PRs minutes later, making senior the review bottleneck.
… So I'm back to being the bottleneck -- there's constant pressure to provide specs and review code, and ultimately that process is just me having an indirect conversation with Claude (em dash is mine). The junior is probably providing negative value, since it would be more efficient for me just to talk to Claude, and they're not learning anything, because it's really hard to learn anything by skimming code that's being pooped out by Claude. I'm not sure what the solution to this is, I still think we need to train junior engineers. …