My opinion is that juniors need time in the saddle to develop good engineering judgement and taste.
Outsourcing critical thinking is seductive and a slippery slope. LLM lures juniors into feeling productive, and molds them into ineffectual middle managers to be readily replaced when there's a bad quarter.
Yes exactly. The mids of my previous team where submitting PRs that at first glance looked good, well documented and with a very clean and professional English.
As you started pulling the threads it was, usually, a mess of subtle bugs and over abstraction. But to them it was great, as it was llm generated and they (the mid devs) had no better judgement.
Outsourcing critical thinking is seductive and a slippery slope. LLM lures juniors into feeling productive, and molds them into ineffectual middle managers to be readily replaced when there's a bad quarter.