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Will juniors still learn coding the hard way?


A lot of what made people good engineers used to come from pain like getting stuck for hours, debugging nonsense, reading bad docs, wiring things together manually, and slowly building intuition.

Now, a junior engineer can get unstuck on almost anything almost immediately — writing code, debugging, understanding unfamiliar patterns, refactoring, or even figuring out how to structure something in the first place.

That’s obviously useful. But I do wonder if something important is getting skipped. What are your thoughts?

  👤 unhandyandy Accepted Answer ✓
That's the age old worry.

Reading will make auditors lose the benefit of a bard's ineffables.

X will make Y lose the benefit of Z's ineffables.

Somehow the species always manages to pull through.

Of course we don't build stone structures as well as the ancient Egyptians did, but we've learned to compensate.