Comment by BeetleB

> I... don't want that. Juniors just slow me down because I have to check what they did and fix their mistakes.

> (this is in the context of professional software development, not making scripts, tinkering etc)

I understand the sentiment. A few months ago they wanted us to move fast and dumped us (originally 2 developers) with 4 new people who have very little real world coding experience. Not fun, and very stressful.

However, keep in mind that in many workplaces, handling junior devs poorly means one of two things:

1. If you have some abstruse domain expertise, and it's OK that only 1-2 people work on it, you'll be relegated to doing that. Sadly, most workplaces don't have such tasks.

2. You'll be fantastic in your output. Your managers will like you. But they will not promote you. After some point, they expect you to be a leverage multiplier - if you can get others to code really well, the overall team productivity will exceed that of any superstar (and no, I don't believe 10x programmers exist in most workplaces).