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aleqs 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LLMs are eroding my software engineering career an...

Experience is one of the only objective signals we have, but you're right it's not the only one. I've seen plenty great junior engineers and interns, and plenty of incompetent staff/principal engineers.

throwaway7783 3 months ago [–]

True, it is the only objective signal, but as you have observed as well, it is also a very poor one.

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