Hot take: a 22-year-old fluent in coding agents beats a lazy senior dev — but watch out for 'slop grenades'
jobergum · x · 2026-09-24
jobergum endorses and extends a viral argument: a 22-year-old fluent with coding agents, with high agency and grit, beats a lazy senior developer with outdated priors — most developers haven't updated for how much changed in the last three years. His caveat: this world is also full of "slop grenades," low-quality AI-generated code waiting to blow up on you.
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