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Being a senior engineer doesn't really have anything to do with how long you've been developing. I've met amazing 21 year old developers who can out code people doing this for 20+ years in their sleep. I would say one of the reasons "seniors" are so much better with AI is because they have CS fundamentals. They know what to ask, they know systems design, they know what ACID is, they understand race conditions...

AI + CS allows you to develop with leverage I've never seen before.

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If you make it far enough in the interview process to interview with someone technical, then this probably doesn't matter. If you get filtered out by the resume or HR stages, then I'm not sure how much it even helps you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns

One of the things that comes with experience is more things moving from your personal unknown unknowns bucket to your personal known knowns and known unknowns buckets.

It's notable that you said "out code" not "out engineer".

If you're desperate to discredit the substance of the comment with pedantic word games, sure. What they are describing sounds like engineering to me.

The substance is hard to see through the conflation of CS and software engineering. Do you actually believe that all there is to software engineering is CS fundamentals?

> who can out code people doing this for 20+ years

zero context for the work, so .. javascript?

Yeah. This is absolutely not the case when I worked on control systems, cryptography, or anything else that isn’t a CRUD saas.

> I've met amazing 21 year old developers who can out code people doing this for 20+ years in their sleep.

yeah that's only true when you compare the top 10% of the 21-years-olds with the bottom 10% of the 51-years-old.

it's technically true but also bs.

(the "10" in "10%" is a made up number, but the point stands)

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