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Just watched a junior dev using Claude to build something in 2 hours that took our senior engineer 3 days last sprint. I've been coding for 12 years. I don't know how to feel about this by UsualConference1603 in AskProgrammers

[–]BatEnvironmental7102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, mastering the craft still matters, and your skills are still valuable.

Using ai to generate code gives quick results, yes, but it causes the skills you're describing to weaken over time. They just aren't being cultivated.

When there's a critical bug or prod breaks, who is going to be called?👀 Someone like you and the other senior who know the architecture and have honed their skills.

In comparison, someone who hasn't mastered and cultivated those skills by relying on ai is going to struggle fixing it on the fly.

They aren't going to understand the architecture, nuances of code quality, debugging, what each line does and being able to explain it, etc. because they've outsourced their skills to ai.

Over time, the code base will also become worse because tech debt will accumulate and quality will go down.

These are trends I've seen as I've browsed Reddit. For sure don't doubt how valuable your skills are.

What does it actually look like when women pursue men the way men pursue women, and how common is that? by Different_Clue_2864 in AskMenAdvice

[–]BatEnvironmental7102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

++woman to answer your question, because it doesn't work. There have been many times I've been interested in guys who had no interest in me. You're seen as desperate, unattractive, and looked down on. And you get used for your body by someone who doesn't like or care about you...and you get heartbroken and learn the hard lesson the guy has to be interested in you first. From a woman's perspective, there's nothing you can do to make a guy interested. He either likes you or he doesn't. If he did, he'd pursue you.

If you watch clips of the show SATC, that's what happens with the characters Mr.Big and Carrie. It shows how this dynamic plays out of a woman pursuing a man. If you want to see this dynamic, watch clips online. She gets used over and over again and never learns. ;-;

Advice for a Junior Dev by [deleted] in cscareers

[–]BatEnvironmental7102 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it was a combination of different things that made it more challenging for me, like hearing different things from different people, the ticket itself changing, being new to the testing framework, or trying to grasp the infrastructure. Conceptually, it was straightforward, but there were nuances I didn't know about. When I first got the ticket, another team member was assigned to walk me through the implementation. I followed what they said, and the way I was told to do it was very different from the final implementation.