The code they submit for review no longer represents their thinking or their skill. The feedback loop for beginners is a bit broken.
What is their skill now? How is it displayed? How and where do we provide valuable feedback? I find myself just approving large PRs because I don't have the time to read it all.
I feel like I've let down a lot of developers this year.
I think the industry has, and we don’t get much out of individualizing it. Let’s not forget that this progression is a series of deliberate choices made by a handful of very influential people that couldn’t give a teaspoon of shit about developers beyond what their subscriptions bring in.
It’s not a super well-received opinion around here, but I think the economics of the large-scale services will mean on-device models are going to be where this all goes sooner or later. My gut says setting up a local LLM coding assistant will be more like choosing and setting up an ide. I don’t have a crystal ball though.