AI is making junior devs useless

Re:AI is making junior devs useless by hodgesrm on Sunday March 01, 2026 @12:57PM (#47209015)

That sounds like a bad hire, not a junior. Why didn’t your manager help fix that?

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Re:AI is making junior devs useless by rsynnott on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:03PM (#47209059)

I gather that quite a lot of companies are using dumb metrics which would show this as _good_ behaviour, these days.

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Re:AI is making junior devs useless by lokar on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:05PM (#47209081)

Sure, but the overriding metric should be the opinion of the Sr engineer who is supposed to be mentoring and supervising the Jr

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Re:AI is making junior devs useless by rsynnott on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:38PM (#47209425)

You'd hope, but, y'know, AI mania.

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Re:AI is making junior devs useless by jfreds on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @08:27PM (#47256301)

Very bad hire. I’ve gently said as much to my manager and skip. But for some reason hiring is hard and firing is hard, and we’re a small team, so I’ve been told to just lower my standards. Yeah, I know

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