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Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

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Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

#2
I'm not sure what the article actually has to say about the topic it presents. It seems to want to be something about not hiring junior talent (something by the way not restricted to the tech industry) but instead it ends up more a critique about people wanting to use a waterfall pipeline.

Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

#3
post #2

I'm not sure what the article actually has to say about the topic it presents. It seems to want to be something about not hiring junior talent (something by the way not restricted to the tech industry) but instead it ends up more a critique about people wanting to use a waterfall pipeline.

Double negative title implies clickbait :)

Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

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post #2

I'm not sure what the article actually has to say about the topic it presents. It seems to want to be something about not hiring junior talent (something by the way not restricted to the tech industry) but instead it ends up more a critique about people wanting to use a waterfall pipeline.

I'm just staring at the title, wondering how this offensive, double-and-a-half-negative phrase made it all the way to the frontpage. I'm going to skip this one for that obvious reason.

Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

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post #2

I'm not sure what the article actually has to say about the topic it presents. It seems to want to be something about not hiring junior talent (something by the way not restricted to the tech industry) but instead it ends up more a critique about people wanting to use a waterfall pipeline.

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Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

#10
Hiring seniors is a waste of money. You need someone who knows enough to drive LLMs, but not too much more. The LLMs are good enough to do the debugging, the coding, and a big part of the design work and system architecture.

Most of the work today is manual testing and feeding the bugs back into the LLMs.

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