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by travisgriggs
28 days ago
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What is unclear to me is how less skilled people gain useful experience, when using these amplifying tools. I’ve been at this for 35 years; I like to think that sometimes i get some pretty amazing results. I work with two pretty green developers. The rate that they can make a mess is now phenomenal. And the sense of confidence the tools give them with early successes, means any experience I might have to offer means less now. Which is ok, I’m not going to be that “my experience has to be useful to you so I still fell relevant” old guy. But I do find myself curious how “lessons are learned” that lead to greater and greater tool exploitation in this brave new world. |
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(I think I'm reading this the right way but if not feel free to correct).
In a word: pain.
Until there's a legitimate threat to their well-being (emotional, psychological, or financial), the lessons won't be truly "learned." Until you know the true cost of a decision, you're flying high.
Older engineers have dealt with this organically so it's kind of encoded into their DNA. The very reason certain things aren't done (or a certain way) is because that pain has already been felt/encouraged learning a better way.