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Why AI crushes junior coders but can't touch senior developers

Building Great Tech · Why the race to AGI is BS - with Ian P. Cook, PhD

“as an example, I think one of the reasons that AI has had such an impact on junior level coding instead of the higher level coding is because what we get with experience and repetition is taste.”

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as an example, I think one of the reasons that AI has had such an impact on junior level coding instead of the higher level coding is because what we get with experience and repetition is taste. And AI has no taste. It has no,

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Ian P. Cook explains why AI excels at junior-level coding tasks but struggles with higher-level programming work. He argues that experienced developers possess something AI fundamentally lacks: taste and judgment that comes from years of practice.

Why this clip

Offers a counterintuitive perspective on AI's current capabilities by highlighting a fundamental limitation that challenges common assumptions about AI replacing all coding work.

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