This article continues to propagate the misconception that young is the same thing as inexperienced.
Children can work open source and rack up experience there. This is like the most humane way in any job ever to get experience as a minor.
While open source may be okay for coding, there are other skills which may not be so easy to do from your own home. In practice they will not just do open source and people will exploit them for free work
They can, if they practice with feedback 8 hours a day.
Typically, young people, as a group, are not famous for practicing something 8 hours a day.
This means, for the group as a whole, it is true.
> The strategic thinking that goes into longer-horizon tasks may be something LLMs aren’t as good at, which aligns with why entry-level workers are more affected than experienced workers.
I think the article is talking in generalities, so on average entry-level software engineers have less experience with long-horizon tasks (e.g. months-long development), though there are definitely the exceptions that prove this rule.