Understanding is the Key
Have you ever tought about the difference between a Senior and a Junior? IMHO, the best definition is that the Senior can figure out things by himself, deliver his work on time, and even teach others. A junior requires much more help and takes much longer to deliver. It's very common for companies at scale to not hire juniors. Usually, managers expect only to receive senior engineers. That works well until you start hiring juniors, because now, the things that were working just stop working. Have you ever thought about the key thing that would make the junior more productive and start getting more senior? IMHO, it's understanding. In the technology field, we think we can hack things, but in reality, we can only do a decent job when we understand what we are doing. It's impossible to make sense of software if we do not understand what's going on. What about AI and LLMs? They might allow juniors to finish narrow and straightforward tasks, but they will likely not be learn...