If agents do the low-level work, how do juniors ever learn it?
Hesamation · x · 2026-10-07
A pointed exchange on learning in the age of coding agents: @trq212 argues that working at a higher level of abstraction has always required understanding the lower levels, and coding agents don't change that. @Hesamation pushes back with the real dilemma: if agents handle the low-level work, how are juniors supposed to learn it at all?
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