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> Leveraging productive-but-often-misguided junior devs is a skill every dev should actively cultivate!

Feels like this is only worthwhile because the junior dev learns from the experience; an investment that yields benefits all around, in the broad sense. Nobody wants a junior around that refuses to learn in perpetuity, serving only as a drag on productivity and eventually your sanity.

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That's somewhere that the AI-as-junior-dev analogy breaks down a little.

There's still incredible accumulated value here, but it's at the other end. The more times you successfully use an LLM to produce working code, the more you learn about how to use them - what they're good at, what they're bad at, how to effectively prompt them.

It's worthwhile because you cannot do everything and often it is better to have someone far worse than you work on a problem than to just ignore it.

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