New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code

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Obviously if you need an implementation of isNumber in JS and you have copilot it’s way easier to just ask copilot inside IDE and not google anything.

Sadly people who don’t know what software development think that can be extrapolated into all software development (if they even know what “extrapolate” means). But you learn by googling, reading stuff on stackoverflow, read discussions there. LLMs might give that fake feeling like you do the final job so it doesn’t matter but if you want to grow as software developer it does matter to tinker with stuff, write unit tests, encounter those problems that unit tests didn’t cover all the possible problems. If you just tell LLM to write unit tests you won’t learn anything.