junior engineers
also referred to as: junior engineer
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2025 by Brendan Humphreys · across every show →
Everything said about junior engineers, oldest first
Jun 20, 2025 negative
AI coding tools pose serious quality risks when used by junior engineers
“There's a challenge for our industry in that we do see kind of slightly bipolar results for these tools in the hands of a senior engineer who can tell good code from bad code. They're very, very powerful, but for graduate engineers, for junior engineers, ah, t…”
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Dan Fu: Junior engineers using AI agents communicate better and level up faster
“When they are really gung ho about understanding and being able to use the AI agents, there's, they're able to communicate so much better than in the olden days. They're able to level up their level of understanding a lot faster.”
Aug 5, 2026 negative
Trojanowski: AI coding agents remain worse than junior engineers over two-week projects
“Even now with coding, like, the agents are not yet they're not human level at being coherent over long periods of time. That's obvious because they can't code like a junior engineer on a project for two weeks. So they can't, they're, that's worse than a human …”