Comment by adamtaylor_13
12 hours ago
I can't seem to get the article to load, but I think I get the gist from the title.
I hired a junior "dev" who literally hadn't even completed an HTML course. Before AI I could not have hired them because they literally did not know how to dev. After AI, anyone with a little grit can push themselves into the field pretty easily.
As with everything in life: you can choose to hard route or you can choose the easy route and your results will follow accordingly.
Adam, can you please share, how in the world, this junior dev got hired with you?
I'm self-taught dev with multiple years of experience. I choose the hard route, even after AI. For me, programming is theory building, so I always choose understanding above all else.
Rock solid understanding of TypeScript, frontend and backed.
I have sent 100s of CVs. For Juniors, Mids and Seniors. Not even a single interview.
I will be glad for your thoughts on the matter.
> As with everything in life: you can choose to hard route or you can choose the easy route and your results will follow accordingly.
Hard agree, but probably not in the way you're implying.
It's the difficult things that make life fun and interesting. A life spent going from one easy thing to another is a life barely lived at all.
From a professional standpoint, I’ve never found “enjoyment” from coding. I enjoy every part of the process of getting business goals from talking to stakeholders -> completed project with coding being the necessary evil.
Funny enough, I started working in 1996 professionally (and had been a hobbyist for six years before going to college). But it was only between 2012-2016 that I was a ticket taker without working with the end user directly - everything I’ve done has been B2B.
GenAI (and working remotely since 2020) has made me enjoy every part of my job.
>> who literally hadn't even completed an HTML course.
so what is their value? proxy your requests to ai?
> I hired a junior "dev" who literally hadn't even completed an HTML course.
I mean, I'm a fairly senior dev, and have literally never completed, or indeed really heard of, a html course. Is that, eh, part of your average CS degree these days?
25 years doing distributed systems and best i can offer anyone is
<marquee><h1><blink> welcome to cyberpunk’s j33t website!!!
:) :)
Fun thing about that:
> Netscape has stipulated removal of the <marquee> element from the Internet Explorer during an HTML ERB meeting in February 1996, as a condition to removing the <blink> element from the Netscape
It's like nuclear disarmament treaties, but for annoying things.
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Why are you paying them instead of running the AI yourself?