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Re:LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare by sneak on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:40AM (#44948874)
> Yes, junior developers exist. They generally consume more resources than they produce in value, with the hope that they will become productive at some later point.

I think this misrepresents the situation. Junior devs are not loss leading normal-devs-in-training, otherwise they wouldn’t be hired.

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Re:LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare by bpt3 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:20AM (#44950343)
Junior devs are hired for potential, not current productivity. There's a reason they are mostly hired by very large organizations.

How many junior devs does it take to produce the same amount of production code as a senior dev? And how much of a senior dev's time do they consume while doing that?

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Re:LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare by player1234 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:39AM (#44970803)
Insane take
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