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Comment by throwaway29473

4 days ago

Good first issues are curated to help humans onboard.

I think this is what worries me the most about coding agents- I'm not convinced they'll be able to do my job anytime soon but most of the things I use it for are the types of tasks I would have previously set aside for an intern at my old company. Hard to imagine myself getting into coding without those easy problems that teach a newbie a lot but are trivial for a mid-level engineer.

  • The other side of the coin is half the time you do set aside that simple task for a newbie, they paste it into an LLM and learn nothing now.

    • Well there’s not much you can do to prevent people from choosing sabotage their own education.

      They have to want to learn.