• HelloRoot@lemy.lol
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    1 day ago

    I’d love to not handhold, but where I worked that was not possible, because my task came from upper management and was to handhold juniors while guarding our production code from anything they did (which often didn’t meet company standards). The tasks the juniors were getting came from somebody else.

    But also, this is not really about the style (throwing into deep waters on one extreme, babysitting on the other, and everything in between) but rather that I experienced way better results from chatGPT for 50$ / month than from a junior who had under a year of experience and costs 3000-4000$ a month. Both require some degree of attention and time investment from seniors if you want to use the resulting code in prod.

    So the real goal is to pay them to get better than chatGPT and hope they stay at your company long enough to get a return out of that investment.

    If you just want junior-grade code, let your seniors deploy chatGPT for a much cheaper price.