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This aligns with my thinking that juniors can leverage AI to become seniors much faster than people without AI but there are important concepts about learning debugging, learning how the underlying technologies work, etc. that is crucial to becoming a senior dev. Just using AI to pump out code without knowing the details of how it works will not end up going well for the long haul.

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Seniors can also leverage AI to become juniors too.

Dogfooding is encouraged for our top dogs, underdogs, and even random strays we find. In our vision of the future on the internet, everyone is a dog.

I know you kid, or at least that gave me a chuckle, but this might be why seniors don’t find a lot of usefulness with AI, because we see blatant issues immediately and think it’s a waste of time sometimes.

I sort of kid, I sort of don't. There's a process seniors go through when approaching problems that vibe coding short circuits by removing some of the elements that act as triggers to the critical thinking process. Without those cues, less critical thinking winds up happening.

Personally, I think it's more a matter of remapping those triggers onto this new process, but for now I think it's a real phenomenon.

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