Senior Developers
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about Senior Developers, every show
Dwarkesh Patel: Study found AI slowed senior developers down 20%
“The media uplift paper, contrary to expectations, they found that whenever senior developers working in repositories that they understood well used AI, they were actually slowed down by 20%. Yeah. Whereas they themselves thought that they were sped up 20%,”
Cursor Agent possesses individual technical skills superior to some senior developers
“I think cursor has a lot of individual skills that are better than certain developers, certain senior developers for sure.”
Gonto: Junior developers prefer step-by-step tours; senior developers find them condescending
“More junior developers wanted a point and click, like tell me here, so I can just get done with it. Somebody that was more senior and had more experience felt that that was condescending. So they wanted somebody to explain what are the big boxes? What are the …”
Habib: Senior developers benefit more from GitHub Copilot than junior developers
“One thing that is surprising to me is that the people who say to me they use it the most are some of the people I consider to be better or more senior developers. You might've thought this tool would help juniors more, but I think people who are more accustome…”
Berghall: Many self-described senior developers lack true R&D skills
“There are a lot of, in the developer community, there are a lot of people who say that they are senior developers, but they are more like, you know, consultants working at the customers, building some websites and web-based stuff, and this is like pure R&D whi…”