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2026-05-23 03:05 UTC

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange Oh, My, God. This is *exactly* what I've been telling people at my work. And it's nothing to do with software. You simply *can't* sustain talent if you don't invest in it. Which means, as you say, hiring juniors and *spending money* to allow seniors to actually train them. Instead, we underbid contracts. In order to deliver on that, we have zero room for any training or mentoring: our seniors are fully tasked with deliverables. We're eating our seed corn.

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@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social 2026-05-28 21:32

@agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us @SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange Yes. *AND* Pair Programming, supported by rigorous Test-Driven Development (TDD) (and other Extreme Programming (XP)) practices are a very effective way to turn "junior" into "senior" programmers *very quickly*. Like six months instead of six years. And it makes much better use of all your other people too. And produces better results. More quickly.

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