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   Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:30:37 JST Sophie Schmieg

   Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I still haven't found an AI that could do that second part.

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     Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:30:37 JST Sophie Schmieg

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     You didn't really think the business value of that PR that had more comments than lines of code that all of us have written at some point in our career (if you haven't, I'm sorry, your onboarding mentor sucked, they were supposed to point out all the stuff you had to learn the hard way) was in getting it merged eventually, right? The value was the PR after that, that had a lot less comments. And the PR after that one, etc.

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     Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 13:30:37 JST Sophie Schmieg

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     On top of that, any junior dev I've ever worked with asked questions when they got stuck, instead of confidently force merging a bunch of buggy code. And not infrequently, those questions laid bare some flaw in the design decisions of the more senior engineer, and let to a better product that way.