Engineer fears AI removes 'struggle' needed to build senior intuition
techNmak · x · 2026-08-18
A senior engineer worries that AI agents might skip the struggle needed for juniors to build intuition. Debugging hard problems creates mental models of how computers work; if AI provides the fix immediately, that understanding is lost. Unlike past shifts like calculators, AI might remove the struggle before intuition is formed. The industry needs to figure out what new experiences replace these reps.
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