How is that different than how any self-taught programmer learns? Dive into a too-big idea, try to make it work and learn from that experience.
Repeat that a few hundred times and you'll have some strong intuitions and sensibilities.
Repeat that a few hundred times and you'll have some strong intuitions and sensibilities.
The junior dev who has agents write a program for them may not understand the code well enough to really touch it at all. They will make the wrong suggestions to fix problems caused by inexperienced assumptions, and will make the problems worse.
i.e. it's because they're junior and not qualified to manage anybody yet.
The LLMs are being thought of as something to replace juniors, not to assist them. It makes sense to me.
Or... just pick up that book, watch a couple of videos on Youtube and avoid all that trying.