alt Hacker NewsSelf-taught, "junior" here.
Due to English-language limitation my most adult life, I struggled to code. Used visual coding etc. But of course, I can't make a living on drag-and-drop harness.
Comes in GPT-3.5, accelerated my learning. Now I'm running my incorporated company, just launched one software-hardware hybrid product. Second one is a micro-SaaS in closed beta.
The point is: when people use "juniors" as a fixed shaped blobs of matter, they focus on the juniors that were in any case going to make mistakes: AI or not. Misses the key point of agentic usage.
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I didn’t speak English my early teenage years, and that haven’t stopped me from reading books about programming in my native language. I remember spending hours in bookshops, excited to pick up next book to devour and try out.
accelerated what learning? learning to code? learning to engineer? learning to manage? learning to market?
This is backwards. You were too lazy to learn English even though every hour spent programming also comes with an included English lesson?
Now AI lets you write code using libraries whose documentation you can't even read? How is this a win?
> I struggled to code
> ...
> Comes in GPT-3.5, accelerated my learning.
So now you can code? If I sat you in front of a computer with no internet and no GPU but your choice of IDE, you would actually be able to produce a product?