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0 points0110001114d ago0 comments

Is this article even worth clicking on? The headline makes it sound like yet another pearl-clutching article extrapolating some trend to the extreme in divergence with reality.

AI has been an effective coding tool for, what, 2 years at most? We've collectively forgotten all of our skills in those 2 years? Really?

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threepts14d ago

It's a big strawman.

"Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing"

It passes the blame to AI for developers not learning because they are not being hired. You don't need to be hired to learn something. You need to learn something to get hired. It's opposite.

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threepts14d ago

It's a big strawman.

"Those engineers don’t exist yet because we’re not creating them. The juniors who should be learning right now are either not being hired or developing"

It passes the blame to AI for developers not learning because they are not being hired. You don't need to be hired to learn something. You need to learn something to get hired. It's opposite.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse