[idiotsecant]

It seems obvious - if you scare a junior engineer they will sit in their office and build an abomination to avoid asking a simple question that could be answered in 3 minutes.

It's a real thing and it doesn't help the junior engineer or the business.

[opdahl]

Which would not be contributing value to the company. I think his point was that a junior should learn that just working blindly like that is not always the right thing either.