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by steve1977 773 days ago
> Isnt this what code reviews are for?

Wouldn't you need to have people with a proper understanding of the programming language and framework to do the code reviews?

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You would. And if the juniors don't really _write_ code in the languages you use, if they don't make mistakes and do research themselves, it'll take them a lot longer to learn them sufficiently to be able to do those reviews.

Listening to people talk in Japanese, I picked up enough to have some idea what they're talking about. I can't speak the language beyond some canned phrases. I certainly wouldn't claim to know Japanese. And I definitely wouldn't get a job writing books in Japanese, armed with Google Translate.

For programming, my solution to this right now is lots of pair programming. Really gives you a good idea of where somebody is at, what they still need to learn, and lots of teaching opportunities. I just hired a junior and we spend about 8 hours a week pairing.

Yeah. Are we assuming 100% of the people working on this project are incompetent? I thought OP was talking about new people joining a project producing low quality code that was likely generated by AI.

Code reviews, done by existing more senior members of the project/team, should prevent this. If it isnt then the project has more issues than AI generated code.