Post #3167508
2026-05-22 21:33 UTC
This likens back to Netflix (circa 2014) showing they rarely hire Interns/Juniors, to which someone gave a memorable response in the form of "If you don't hire juniors, you don't deserve seniors" in 2018. https://dev.to/isaacdlyman/if-you-dont-hire-juniors-you-dont-deserve-seniors-48kb
The industry has been making moves to avoid hiring Juniors, or training _anyone_, for a long time under the assumption someone else will do it or everyone will "sink or swim" on their own (externalizing the cost to individuals).
@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
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@zimzat@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 21:33
The idea that Juniors only exist to write boilerplate has always been wrong; similarly the idea we should use AI to generate boilerplate ignores the fact that boilerplate, by and large, should not exist. It is a sign of a bad abstraction, an inefficient protocol, an outdated model, a code base stuck in the mud, or management blocking enhancements. We don't need ways to generate it faster; we need to engineer ways to avoid it entirely. @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us