Hacker News Reader

> but I swear it built the comprehension I have today.

For interns/junior engineers, the choice is: comprehension VS career.

And I won't be surprised if most of them will go with career now, and comprehension.. well thanks maybe tomorrow (or never).

View on HN

I don’t think that’s the dichotomy. I’ve been in charge of hiring at a few companies, and comprehension is what I look for 10 times out of 10.

well you could get "interview-optimized" interviewees with impressive-looking mini-projects

There are plenty of companies today where "not using AI enough" is a career problem.

It shouldn't be, but it is.

I have worked with a lot of junior engineers, and I’ll take comprehension any day. Developing their comprehension is a huge part of my responsibility to them and to the company. It’s pretty wasteful to take a human being with a functioning brain and ask them to churn out half understood code that works accidentally. I’m going to have to fix that eventually anyway, so why not get ahead of it and have them understand it so they can fix it instead of me?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com