Comment by raw_anon_1111

10 hours ago

And how do they compare to what a senior dev can do with Claude Code/Codex?

I bet you a senior could do with one good prompt to Claude what a junior would take a day to do before AI - and take time away from the senior.

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Blackthorn  5 hours ago

Pretty favorably, because the coding agents suck.

  • raw_anon_1111  4 hours ago

    So do junior devs. I’ve gotten great results treating coding agents as junior devs where I keep my hands on the wheel

    • Blackthorn  4 hours ago

      Some of you folks think way too highly of yourselves. Junior devs are awesome. You tell them what needs doing, if it's not well defined you have them write a document to figure it out, and then they churn away at it and will often surprise you with a brilliant solution.

      Meanwhile, I've never once seen a coding agent give a brilliant solution or design to just about anything, and anything with the barest whiff of undefined-ness will simply zero in on your existing biases.

      This whole thread reads like absolute insanity to me. I love getting new junior devs. They do great work.

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bluefirebrand  9 hours ago

> I bet you a senior could do with one good prompt to Claude what a junior would take a day to do before AI

It would still be a waste of a seniors time to write that prompt. They should have more important things to spend time on

  • raw_anon_1111  9 hours ago

    And it’s not a waste of their time to have to give detailed requirements and troubleshooting steps to a junior developer, constantly being interrupted, and then having to check their work thoroughly?

    If you have to be that detailed anyway - you might as well use AI.