The Skills AI Stopped Teaching Junior Developers
The Skills AI Stopped Teaching Junior DevelopersAI can generate code, but it can't replace the experiences that used to turn junior developers into senior ones.Jan 01, 1970Last month I asked a junior engineer on my team to make a small change. They asked Claude to make it, and Claude told them the change was invalid.So they came back and told me it couldn't be done.It could. So I said: let's do this one together, in Visual Studio, by hand.We got the change made.
- ▪The Skills AI Stopped Teaching Junior DevelopersAI can generate code, but it can't replace the experiences that used to turn junior developers into senior ones.Jan 01, 1970Last month I asked a junior engineer on my team to make a small chan
- ▪They asked Claude to make it, and Claude told them the change was invalid.So they came back and told me it couldn't be done.It could.
- ▪So I said: let's do this one together, in Visual Studio, by hand.We got the change made.
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The Skills AI Stopped Teaching Junior DevelopersAI can generate code, but it can't replace the experiences that used to turn junior developers into senior ones.Jan 01, 1970Last month I asked a junior engineer on my team to make a small change. They asked Claude to make it, and Claude told them the change was invalid.So they came back and told me it couldn't be done.It could. So I said: let's do this one together, in Visual Studio, by hand.We got the change made. What stayed with me afterward was the session itself, and the discomfort was mine rather than theirs: I had been quietly expecting a whole set of reflexes that nobody had ever given them a reason to build.
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