hired a junior who learned to code with AI. cannot debug without it. don't know how to help them.

LLMs 749 points 220 comments 1 month ago

they write code fast. tests pass. looks fine but when something breaks in prod they're stuck. can't trace the logic. can't read stack traces without feeding them to claude or using some ai code review tool. don't understand what the code actually does. tried pair programming. they just want to paste errors into AI and copy the fix. no understanding why it broke or why the fix works. had them explain their PR yesterday. they described what the code does but couldn't explain how it works. said "claude wrote this part, it handles the edge cases." which edge cases? "not sure, but the tests pass." starting to think we're creating a generation of devs who can ship code but can't maintain it. is this everyone's experience or just us?

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