Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

Post by ManuelKiessling » Mon, Apr 07, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

hansmayer wrote: post #253

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #241

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I've taken this feedback to heart and tried to improve the structure a bit. The main message I want to bring across is two-fold: 1. Senior developers are in a great position to make productive use of AI coding tools 2. I have (so far) identified three measures that make AI coding sessions much more successful I hope the reworked version makes these more central and clear. I'm not a native English speaker, thus it's p…

Hey, thanks for not being offended about an honest comment, not a lot folks could take it as maturely, as you did :) May I suggest to add a short summary, half page max, of the important results that you consider to have achieved at the beginning of the article? Kind of like how scientific articles prepend the content with an abstract. I think it would help a lot in building the expectations for reading the rest of i…

Post by barotalomey » Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 5:27 AM UTC

ramoz wrote: post #322

barotalomey wrote: post #255

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> The gap between Sr and Jr skills with close as AI gets better. Sorry, but as the wind blows, we only have indications of the opposite so far and it's wildly reported as a generating losing their ability for deep thought, relying too much on automated code generation. This is especially damaging for juniors, who never get the chance to learn the tricks of the trade in the first place, and they're the ones having a h…

The wind has blown from autocomplete to scaffolding entire applications. Where do you think this is heading? Your comment addresses another issue, again in isolated temporal fashion. You and I do not understand assembly language. Previous generations of engineers did.