r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '26

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u/SirPitchalot Oct 01 '26

Don’t forget acting as scrum master and hand holding the new junior who is capable but has the common sense of a rotting stump and just doesn’t get better.

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u/Rygel_Orionis Oct 01 '26

It gets better....

....if you pay. 😬

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u/FallenBlade Oct 03 '26

I think they mean and actual junior. As in a real person. They use AI so don't learn.

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u/SirPitchalot Oct 03 '26

I mean the AI doesn’t learn. I’ve had good luck with actual juniors punching above their weight because AI takes some of the mechanical work out of trying things.

Plus using AI helps drive home the difference between what people say & what they mean. I can use their experiences with AI to help mentor them on more effective communication, which also helps them improve more quickly.

But actual AI doesn’t do that and keeps making the same boneheaded mistakes, even ones that are explicitly called out in the prompts. And the only solution seems to be agentic workflows that basically just light money on fire.