Back in my day we copied and pasted random stack overflow answers until something worked like real junior devs
That my take on the whole AI coding industry. It’s on part with stackoverflow responses.
You had it easy! I'm old enough to remember copy-pasting things from random VBulletin forums and the comment section of PHP documentation. And sometimes from old mailing lists that showed up in search results :).
You had copy and paste? Lucky!! In my day we actually had to type code by hand from books or magazines (or worse yet from memory).
Senior devs generally know how code works, and all senior devs started as juniors. I think the difference is that every annoying/stupid issue turned into a lesson. Now it's one message to ChatGPT and then forgotten about.