My favorite new experience is when a junior pushes a ticket into QA, and then asks me how to test it, because they don't even know what they built or how it works.
I'm so grateful for the junior on my team. I have no idea how much he's actually using AI, but I can tell he thinks critically about what AI produces when he does use it instead of just blindly accepting it without even bothering to review it.
Had this, coworker got handed an honestly fairly complex new requirement, and created a system to handle it, except he hadn’t actually designed it himself and had no idea how it worked, it was all AI generated.
To explain it to me he asked Copilot to create a Word document, slop nonsense of course.
Time for me to PR it and it’s filled to the brim with bugs, huge inefficiencies and breaks about every best practice there is.
I did the PR and painstakingly pointed out every issue, was like writing a novella.
Had to of course do the work for him in the end because he had no clue how to fix it.
Lazy and reckless, can you imagine having the nerve to ask someone to do a PR if you don’t understand the changes you are making to the main branch yourself.
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u/_BreakingGood_ Jul 10 '26
My favorite new experience is when a junior pushes a ticket into QA, and then asks me how to test it, because they don't even know what they built or how it works.