[lamontcg]

But these are people who already "know how to drive" in principle, they are presumably just not driving well.

The solution to that isn't to have the instructor drive them to the store and back. The right way to approach that is to have the instructor watch them drive and give them tips and feedback in real time. Observe and correct. With programming then they're running the keyboard themselves and they're the ones actually doing the work, which is going to reinforce the learning in a way that just watching isn't going to (similar to how note-taking helps to reinforce memory and learning in lectures).

This takes a whole lot more patience though since you can't just sit down at the computer and start bashing keys yourself but have to "use your words" and requires some ability to instruct.

And I've done quite a lot of this kind of mentoring at my last job and this was the approach I've most often taken.

Where I found it more useful to drive the keyboard myself was in sessions where I was working on solving problems that were at my level where I didn't know the solution. That way they could watch my entire thinking process as I figured it out in "real time" and see where I went down avenues that didn't work out and how I thought about finding the right solution, along with the workflow that I used.

I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to replicate that after they were done watching me, that is more to show where there's more room to climb.

[darkerside]

There seems to be a total lack of awareness of the task relevant maturity ladder here https://medium.com/@ameet/task-relevant-maturity-aff122fb535...

The manager's options are more nuanced then either you do it, or I do it for you.