Comment by VagabundoP
2 days ago
Two things that will hurt us in the long run, working from home and AI. I'm generally in favour of both, but with newbies it hurts them as they are not spending enough face to face time with seniors to learn on the job.
And AI will hurt them in their own development and with it taking over the tasks they would normally cut their teeth on.
We'll have to find newer ways of helping the younger generation get in the door.
A weekly 1 hour call, where pair programming/ exploration of an on-going issue, technical idea would be enough to replace face to face time with seniors. This has been working great for us, at a multi billion dollar profitable public company thats been fully remote.
I would argue that just being in the office or not using AI doesn't guarantee any better learning of younger generations. Without proper guidance a junior would still struggle regardless of their location or AI pilot.
The challenge now is for companies, managers and mentors to adapt to more remote and AI assisted learning. If a junior can be taught that it's okay to reach out (and be given ample opportunities to do so), as well as how to productively use AI to explain concepts that they may feel too scared to ask because they're "basics", then I don't see why this would hurt in the long run.