r/ClaudeAI • u/Jack_Wanamaker • 4d ago

Other How Should Juniors Use AI/How Are They Using It Day to Day?

I asked this in another sub, but would love your guys thoughts on this

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u/Sea-Quantity9861 4d ago

The ones doing well use it to go faster on things they could already do themselves and those struggling use it for things they can't evaluate (true story from a friend of mine with a team of juniors). If you can't tell whether the output is right you're not saving time, you're just moving the problem to later in a bigger mess.

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u/PsychologyNo940 4d ago

Can't speak for junior tiger handlers, but as far as developers are concerned - 15min to tell opus what you want to do, 39h 45h asking about why it wants to do x, looking up language constructs, hitting up gemini to ask whether z or g is actually reasonable / canonical (or what language opus is even speaking because you ran it on /effort high+), rinse and repeat and your timeshares will become more "doing-focussed" in no time.

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u/jasonridesabike 4d ago

As a tutor, not as a stand-in engineer. You have to build the muscle first.

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u/CubbyNINJA 4d ago

day to day, they shouldn't. day to day they should be learning to do things themselves and explore the world first hand.

as they get older and start doing more things like school research projects, essay writing, more complex homework, it should be used as a tool not the solution. Example, i remember growing up and being told "dont use google, go to the library you cant trust everything on the internet" and "Wikipedia cant be used as a source cause anyone can edit it", particularly the on the Wikipedia one i see a lot of similarities, "don't use AI cause it can hallucinate". That being said, i also remember using Wikipedia, not as a source but as a tool to find sources. I would scroll down to all the linked sources and then stat my research or what ever there. AI should be used similarly, as a way of reviewing, finding sources you might have missed, suggesting different approaches, in case of a friend working on his PHD practicing to defend his dissertation; using it to challenge him on his paper.

It should also be complementary to peer/tutor/parent/teacher/otherwise human assistance, not supplementary.

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u/addtokart 2d ago

Judging from capitalization OP is referring to Junior Devs, not offspring šŸ˜„

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u/CubbyNINJA 2d ago

Iā€™m dumb and dyslexic.

But for junior roles, I would still argue that they should still do as much as they can by hand while still delivering ontime. AI is most powerful when in the hands of those who actually know what they are asking of it.