[hzia]

Yes it does feel inverted and rightfully so. Because of that, juniors are net-negative by default which surprises most teams when they hire junior devs for the first time.

We are not fully there yet, but you can see from the Open Source PRs above that its good enough that this can make an in-house team more productive than the default.

Biggest part that makes it work are enabling multiple devs to review each other, solid QA and dev environments to reduce hand-holding and a community to grow and learn from.

Larger corps like Google already have this infra setup, but most teams cant afford to build it internally.