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by hallway_monitor 55 days ago
Junior developers have always been a lot less effective than senior developers. We will need new senior developers so we will need to train junior developers. Maybe we train them by forcing them to do things the hard way. The slow way. By hand. Because if we let them do things the fast way they are going to cause some serious damage.
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Who's going to be doing that?

Employers were already refusing to hire juniors, even when 0.5-1 years' salary for a junior would be cheaper than spending the same on hiring a senior.

They'll never accept intentionally "slower" development for the greater good.

> They'll never accept intentionally "slower" development for the greater good.

That comes post Chernobyl.

internships for one.

my last summer intern did everything the manual way, except for a chunk where I wanted him to get something done fast without having to learn all the underlying chunks