[leros]

I know lots of junior developers using tools like Cursor. When talking to them about it, they say they're not really learning how to program and don't know what they're doing most of the time. I do question how effective they actually are.

I recall that before AI, junior developers weren't very productive their first year on the job, but they became at least 10x as productive as they ramped up.

I'm left wondering if the "AI boost" that junior devs are getting now is leaving them less productive than if they had the ramp up that we had in the past. Maybe AI is making them 2-3x as productive but they're staying stuck there. Whereas without AI they might learn more and reach higher productivity.

The experienced devs I know use AI as a collaborative tool on the side. Like asking Claude or ChatGPT targeted questions. That's what I'm doing as well. I know I can code much faster than the junior devs using Cursor that I interact with.