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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialtoTech@programming.dev•Study: AI wiping out entry-level jobs for young workersEnglish
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    3 days ago

    As a person who has been managing software development teams for 30+ years, I have an observation.
    Invariably, some employees are “average”. Not super geniuses, not workaholics, but people who (say) have been doing a good job with customer support. Generally they can code simple things and know the OS versions we support as a power user – but not as well as a sysadmin.

    I do find that if I tell them to use ChatGPT to help debug issues, they do almost as well as if a sysadmin or more experienced programmer had picked up the ticket. It gets better troubleshooting, they maybe fix an actual root cause bug in our product code.