I say you’re wrong. If in dacade we are stilling complaining about the same dev, then we have failed to teach. In a decade that junior dev should be a senior and probably better than me. If they are still junior either they don’t have the ability to progress or I failed them. Most likely I failed them…m
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orclev@lemmy.world 5 days agoFrom one senior dev to another, who remembers when O’Reily books were the gold standard, this, exactly this. Junior devs are junior because they don’t know how to code. The important bit is that they learn and become intermediate devs. If in another decade were sitting here complaining about intermediate and senior devs that don’t know how to program, then we’ll have a problem.
vrek@programming.dev 5 days ago
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And let’s be honest, a certain percentage of junior devs never do learn. That’s always been the case, AI or not.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I suspect there are a lot of people who chased dollars with boot camps. They lack critical thinking skills, and don’t value curiosity and learning, which are pretty important to this field.
If they don’t know where to start and aren’t excited by figuring it out, they aren’t going to have a great time.