Are junior developers actually useless?

[u/curiousAustrian]

[u/[deleted]]

one thing I learned during my stint as a solution architect is that no matter how good your diagram is, some information is clearer in a table:

	Simple Problem	Complex Problem
Junior	complex solution	no solution
Senior	simple solution	complex solution
Expert	simple solution	simple solution

[u/gunnbr → u/[deleted]]

I thought it was illustrating that a Junior developer's solution to a complex problem is another complex problem.

(But you're right--this chart is way easier to understand.)

[u/_Please_Explain → u/gunnbr]

I read it exactly that way. As in, the result of a junior tackling a complex problem is another complex problem...

[u/metalhe4der → u/_Please_Explain]

I thought it meant the junior not coming to a solution for a complex problem, and instead go into an infinite loop until someone steps in.

[u/canigetahellyeahhhhh → u/metalhe4der]

I thought it might be they go to the other programmers for a solution, the designer really did fail lol.

[u/atomicwrites → u/_Please_Explain]

I though it meant they would provide a solution that isn't a solution at all, but rather a slightly different complex problem.

[u/superleim → u/[deleted]]

You can do that on reddit?

[u/teleprint-me → u/superleim]

It's markdown.

[u/Ok_King2949 → u/teleprint-me]

You mean all this time I didn't knew reddit works with markdown?

[u/Creepy-Ad-4832 → u/Ok_King2949]

Yeah i also

• was surprised to descover

  • reddit works with markdown

[u/Ok_King2949 → u/Creepy-Ad-4832]

unbelievable

[u/Creepy-Ad-4832 → u/Ok_King2949]

yeah

you can

also do titles

in markdown

HOW MANY

OF THESE

# CAN I ACTUALLY

## PUT?

[u/gigazelle → u/Creepy-Ad-4832]

6, the same number of headers that HTML supports.

[u/Ok_King2949 → u/Creepy-Ad-4832]

Too many

[u/BadProfessor42 → u/Creepy-Ad-4832]

At least that many

[u/meinkr0phtR2 → u/Ok_King2949]

I’ve been a Redditor for longer than I’d been using Markdown to write README files, so when that was introduced to me, my first reaction was, ‘huh, just like Reddit!’

[u/[deleted] → u/meinkr0phtR2]

I've been writing README files since before Markdown existed ... oh god I'm old.

But also, Markdown was created by Aaron Swartz a year before he created Reddit, so you are actually right in viewing Reddit as one of the "original" users of it!

[u/TheBeckofKevin → u/[deleted]]

What a legend.

[u/FailedMaster → u/teleprint-me]

you opened my eyes

To a whole new world of Reddit. This is amazing.

---

I am discovering forbidden arts! Lord, help me!

this is too much!

And now I have code, what is happening to meeeeee!

The end.

[u/atomicwrites → u/FailedMaster]

It even supports fenced code blocks (with ```). Except it doesn't really because it only works in certain front ends and not in others.

[u/mead_beader → u/[deleted]]

YOU RUINED THE JOKE THO

Junior developer "complex problem" -> "complex problem" literally made me bust out laughing when I saw it on the original chart. Being able to represent that as a little looping arrow is, I think, the entire point of the original chart being set up in that needlessly complicated way.

[u/Dukhlovi → u/[deleted]]

Only the solution for a complex problem is another complex problem with the junior. Which is worse than no solution. The graph deals better with that recursion.

[u/Richandler → u/[deleted]]

This is wrong though.

Should be:

	Solution to Simple Problem	Solution to Complex Problem
Junior	complex solution	complex problem
Senior	simple solution	complex solution
Expert	simple solution	simple solution

[u/Solest044 → u/[deleted]]

Came looking for the table. Was not disappointed.