Junior devs and AI assistants: how do you mentor now?

Juniors ship faster but explain less. I ask them to walk me through the code line by line. Other ideas?

25 sparks · 19 comments

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Camila Soto · 13 likes

The beginner friendly path for mentoring juniors with AI is way better than a year ago, that part is underrated

Ngozi Bello · 12 likes

I'm more of an enthusiast than a pro but mentoring juniors with AI has been fun to tinker with on weekends.

Fair enough

Ren Suzuki · 6 likes

Unpopular opinion: mentoring juniors with AI is one of those things that sounds simple until you try it with real constraints.

my wallet felt that

Is anyone else tired of the hype around mentoring juniors with AI, feels like every other post is about it

I've lived this exact meeting

Priya Nair · 4 likes

My manager read one article on mentoring juniors with AI and now it's our whole roadmap lol

Same experience here

We tried mentoring juniors with AI last quarter, worked great for small stuff, got messy at scale

wait until you see the invoice

As someone who does this for a living, the biggest cost with mentoring juniors with AI is the stuff nobody puts in the demo

Liam Naidoo · 10 likes

agree mostly, though not for every case

Fair enough

Would love to see actual data on mentoring juniors with AI instead of vibes. Anyone have links

send help

cost vs benefit matters here, we ran numbers on mentoring juniors with AI and the payoff came later than expected

wait until you see the invoice

lol my cat has stronger opinions on it than I do