I read to like the first line under the first bold heading and immediately this person seemed like an alien. I'll go back and read the rest because it's silly to be put off a whole article by this kind of thing, but what in the actual fuck?
I was probably not alive the last time anyone would have learned that you should read existing code in some kind of linear order, let alone programming. Is that seriously what the author did as a junior, or is it a weirdly stilted way to make an analogy to sequential information being passed into an LLM... which also seems to misunderstand the mechanism of attention if I'm honest
I swear like 90% of people who write about "junior developers" have a mental model of them that just makes zero sense that they've constructed out of a need to dunk on a made up guy to make their point
I was probably not alive the last time anyone would have learned that you should read existing code in some kind of linear order, let alone programming. Is that seriously what the author did as a junior, or is it a weirdly stilted way to make an analogy to sequential information being passed into an LLM... which also seems to misunderstand the mechanism of attention if I'm honest
I swear like 90% of people who write about "junior developers" have a mental model of them that just makes zero sense that they've constructed out of a need to dunk on a made up guy to make their point