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by bluefirebrand 109 days ago
> I bet you a senior could do with one good prompt to Claude what a junior would take a day to do before AI

It would still be a waste of a seniors time to write that prompt. They should have more important things to spend time on
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raw_anon_1111 109 days ago
And it’s not a waste of their time to have to give detailed requirements and troubleshooting steps to a junior developer, constantly being interrupted, and then having to check their work thoroughly?

If you have to be that detailed anyway - you might as well use AI.

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bluefirebrand 108 days ago
No, teaching the next generation of humans is not a waste of time

I'm very sorry for you that you think that way

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raw_anon_1111 108 days ago
So exactly how am I going to convince my management to open a req for a junior developer who is not going to help us meet our quarterly goals and take time away from the other senior developers that will either have to work longer hours or do less work?

I’m not going to work as a charity and neither are any of my coworkers. We are all here to exchange labor for money.

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bluefirebrand 108 days ago
We as a collective need to convince our management of this, but that needs to start with people getting their heads out of their asses and working together instead of this mercenary attitude you have
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raw_anon_1111 108 days ago
I don’t have to do anything except keep my head down, do my job and enjoy my well earned autonomy. I’m definitely not going to try to convince my skip, skip, skip manager to change their hiring policies. It’s not like my line level manager has any power over anything

Even when I was at a startup before 2020 and I did have the ear of the CTO and the founders I knew my ultimate mission was to do what was needed to get acquired and before that I knew exactly what my mission was when k was hired to lead the tech initiatives as we were acquiring companies “find efficiencies” and go public.

Or do you think I could have convince anyone of anything as an L5 at AWS in the middle between architect at a startup and my current company?

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orangecoffee 108 days ago
Your getting unnecessarily down voted by devs who want to feel morally superior, but don't have any concrete answer to the conundrum you've posed.

It's about money, and the actual solution would be to lower pay at senior level and give it to juniors, with some lock in agreed by the junior in exchange for this grace.

I doubt the vast majority will agree to this.

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