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Re:The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer by Klonoar on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:18AM (#42602315)
> I was probably not alive the last time anyone would have learned that you should read existing code in some kind of linear order

I think you're jumping ahead and missing a point that the article itself made: there are indeed bootcamp developers who were taught this way. I have spent quite a number of hours of my life trying to walk some prospective developers back from this mindset.

That said I think that you could write this entire article without dunking on junior developers and I don't consider it particularly well written, but that's a separate issue I guess.

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Re:The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer by advael on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:29AM (#42602404)
I suppose such a bootcamp may exist but wow, that's crazy to me

But yea, having now read the whole thing I'm mostly taking issue with the writing style I guess. I find the method they tried interesting but it's worth noting that it's ultimately just another datapoint for the value of multi-scale analytic techniques when processing most complex data (Which is a great thing to have applied here, don't get me wrong)

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