[sktrdie]

> then why am I paying for a senior ?

Because they know how to talk to the AI. That's literally the skill that differentiates seniors from juniors at this point. And a skill that you gain only by knowing about the problem space and having banged your head at it multiple times.

[zelphirkalt]

The actual skill is having knowledge and knowing when to not trust the AI, because it is hallucinating or bullshitting you. Having worked on enough projects to have a good idea about how things should be structured and what is extensible and what not. What is maintainable and what not. The list goes on and on. A junior rarely has these skills and especially not, when they rely on AI to figure things out.

[johnnyanmac]

>That's literally the skill that differentiates seniors from juniors at this point.

If your product has points where llms falter, this use a useless metric.

>and having banged your head at it multiple times.

And would someone who relied on an LLM be doing this?

[htrp]

Except most junior devs will be better than sr devs at wholehearted ai adoption