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> And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges.

There are people who don't get blocked waiting for external input in order to get tasks like this done, which I think is the intended comparison. There's a level of intuition that junior devs and LLMs don't have that senior devs do.

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To offer a counterpoint, I had much better intuition as a junior than I do now, and it was also better than the seniors on my team.

Sometimes looking at the same type of code and the same infra day in and day out makes you rusty. In my olden days, I did something different every week, and I had more free time to experiment.

So you are a worse dev now than you were before? Have you asked for a pay cut from your employer?

pay increase - with better tools, I'd imagine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

;)

Believe it or not, my employer likes what I'm doing so I'm still on the promotion track.

They seem more concerned with my ability to work on the company's bread and butter.

And you are better at working on the company's bread and butter with worse intuition?

Hobby coding is imho a high entropy signal that you joined the workforce with a junior title but basically senior experience, which is what I see from kids who learned programming young due to curiosity vs those who only started learning in university. IOW I suspect you were not a junior in anything but name and pay.

There’s also a factor of the young being very confident that they’re right ;)

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