Today, if someone uses LLMs for code generation, he/she will probably question the generated code and will put his own judgement above it. I am curious how fast that will change, especially for juniors. When will they start to question their own judgement and just go with the generated code becuase its "more safe"?
At present, when juniors do this at my company, they usually get fired within the month. The onboarding docs now explicitly state that though code review is a joint-responsibility process, you as the submitter are responsible for understanding it, ensuring it all works, and being aware of the broader scope and consequences. Maybe many companies have placed more responsibility on the reviewier to catch problems in the past?
I would go a step further and dont let juniors use LLMs for code generation. The purpose and your role as a junior is to not only work but also to learn. When using genrated code, you miss a lot of opportunities to do so. Of course you could learn of some other methods or stuff from the frameworks you are using but imho thats not that big of an advantage.
LLMs are very good at sounding right. I’m sure the code generated from them are rarely reviewed by junior developers. Even if they did question it i bet they give the LLM the benefit of the doubt. “Well the computer said this so it must be right otherwise it would be a bug and I bet Anthropic has caught all the bugs…”
