Comment by RodgerTheGreat

At least when you mentor an actual junior developer they often learn, and you can take satisfaction in aiding the growth of a human being. All the time and effort spent coaxing an LLM to "do better" either disappears in a puff of smoke the next time it goes schizoid and needs to have its context cleared or- at best- is recorded to help a for-profit company train their next generation of products.

Like everything else about the "GenAI" fad, it boils down to extractively exploiting goodwill and despoiling the commons in order to convert VC dollars into penny-shavings.