Concerned by junior devs being over reliant on Chatgpt
The lack of critical thinking these days is driving me nuts. I've got a few people on my team who've somehow BS'd their way into roles they can't handle. They can't do anything that takes more than a minute of actual thought.
It's like all I get is copy-pasted ChatGPT output for the simplest questions. Makes me seriously worried about how they will get better over time (as a lot of us did).
We're churning out folks who can't think for themselves, and it's scary as hell.
jfgp02
Stealth
10 days ago
This is something I've observed in interviews I take for interns. He was integrating an API and received an error which was just a single line string that said "API Key Missing".
There wasn't any stack trace or anything else, he didn't even have to find the error, it was written clearly in one single line.
Ideally you would either ask the interviewer or check the API's docs for the same.
But his immediate response was that he wanted to use chatgpt to figure out the solution to this issue. He even pasted this string into chatgpt and asked it how to resolve it without giving it any context. His prompt was, "How to resolve API Key Missing".
CloudWizard
Stealth
10 days ago
🫣 Har baat Samjhana sada Sambhav nahi hai .....
🕗 Samay samajhaayega 😌
This is how most GenZ are starting out in their careers. It would be interesting to see how it is going to turn out. My hypothesis is the competition for critical thinking and clarity of thought will reduce drastically in the coming days. People who work on improving these traits are gonna thrive.
As hardware and software tools are maturing, we don't need critical thinking that much, not in all cases, this will work till the boat floats,
Good for companies they can structure teams in efficient way, few guys with critical thinking for complex work for other type of work llm enabled human developers
GeneralZod
Stealth
10 days ago
They are evolving with the new technology and you also have to adapt to it eventually. I am against 100% asking everything to chatgpt plus , but we can definitely iterate our code , and optimise it or write much clean code using chatgpt plus. Also it can write really good unit test cases.
Btw, if someone solve more numbers of leet code questions, can that person be considered as critical thinkers? I see many people suggesting me to solve leet code questions to clear the product base company interviews.
Is this the correct interview approach or any other ways to check critical thinking?
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