Pretty much. We had the worst junior dev ever and he never got better for a period of two years because he was coddled and allowed to keep submitting horrible code. He was laid off, thankfully honestly, but if there weren't budget cuts I feel like he never would've improved and just kept wasting everyone else's time.

Edit: the point I was making here is that coddling him kept from either being fired or getting better. Not sure why people cannot understand that more than one thing can be true. In this case that the dude is a horrible dev and also that management dropped the ball. I tried to teach him shit. When he didn't improve I let my manager know how things were going. Nothing happened to him for literal years.

And as the cherry on top here he said he was going to start some kind of businessy-sounding machine learning degree program, after he was let go in layoffs. So yeah the dude knows he sucks at coding but definitely wants in on the AI grift.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

So why didn't y'all train him if he was that bad?

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This assumes that Jr Dev wanted to be trained, and could be trained. I've known some AI-brain "devs" from before AI was a thing.

If someone can't be bothered to read an error message, can we really be expected to teach them how to debug? Etc.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. Several of us tried to train him. He was not only not as good as he seemed in the interview, he didn't care to learn.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh a "what the hell's an error message" Dev. I thought they all died out

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 weeks ago

There's a tsunami of them coming, and they will all beach in the Great AI Outage of 2028, just you wait.

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ha no. There are a ton of new juniors like that.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I grew up during the great Sierra adventure game age so if you didn't know how to program a boot disk you weren't turning on your computer properly. With style.

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