they'd deliver complete solutions to problems once or several times per day that would normally take days, or weeks if you factor in necessary learning
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complete solutions... once or several times per day that would normally take days
In the thread “AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them”, replying to this comment
Helped: Delivering complete solutions quickly
Got in the way: Lack of understanding and inability to explain how solutions work
… Now, writing documentation is automatic, but reading it still isn't. I've been managing a team of interns at my last job, and as they were all equipped with coding agents, they'd deliver complete solutions to problems once or several times per day that would normally take days, or weeks if you factor in necessary learning. As review of their understanding, and for the sake of my own cognitive debt, I would first ask them the question "How does it work?" and they usually couldn't answer. …