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then they should ask the ai questions about it to learn. Even ask it what the right questions are if needed.

You can do this, and sometimes it works, but more often than not it does not. it's basically the blind leading the blind. With the current state of LLM hallucinations, it's very easy to be given bad or outright wrong answers, and if you don't know any better (which as a jr you probably don't) you'll just end up running in circles.

I think this will def get better over time though.

damn right, I tried using GPT-4 for to make a text editor enhanced with CodeMirror 6, but the model kept confusing with version 5, and the thing is, they moved stuff around and deleted some modules, so it was a total mess

when you refactor the whole framework you should change its name to keep docs straight, a mere version change is not strong enough for LLMs

Does that work?

Can a novice an LLM into coaxing requirements out of the novice?

Yes. You ask an LLM to ask you questions until it's clear what you want to do.

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