[andrewgleave]

Yes. Juniors have a lack of knowledge about how to build coherent mental models of problems whose solution will ultimately be implemented in code, whereas seasoned engineers do.

Seniors can make this explicit to models and use them to automate "the code they would have written," whereas a junior doesn’t know what they would have written nor how they would have solved it absent a LLM.

Same applies to all fields: LLMs can be either huge leverage on top of existing knowledge or a crutch for a lack of understanding.