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by kburman 201 days ago
I don't know why you would say juniors handle this better. From what I've seen, juniors who ship fast often do so by ignoring domain complexity and testing against a single "happy path" prompt.

Seniors take longer because they are actually trying to understand the domain and cover edge cases. Speed isn't a metric of success if the feature is half-baked and breaks the moment a user deviates from the test case.

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Juniors are juniors because they haven't yet struggled with mistakes of their own creation. In a few years we should see some pretty strong senior engineers emerging.