alt Hacker News>I tell them to try to find what part of the code doesn't work before generating the fix
this makes me kinda sad. they don't do this on their own? are they not even a little curious
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> are they not even a little curious
Some are. Some aren't. Usually a good indicator of career trajectory.
It's a different mindset. Has nothing to do with curiosity.
For me and you, "fixing" something means finding which assumption was violated and redesigning the solution in light of that. Sometimes this means adding code, sometimes it means making the solution smaller.
For a lot of people, "fixing" means adding code to make it work. This always makes the solution larger.
The latter group can still be curious! But they're curious about which addition makes it work, not about their incorrect beliefs.
even before AI very few developers cared about the actual craft. I'd say only about 3%. For a lot of people it's just a job, no matter if it's a corperate dev or a startup dev.