https://noraincheck.github.io/tags/mentorship/Recent content in Mentorship on NoRaincheckHugoen-USNoRaincheckSat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://noraincheck.github.io/posts/teaching-juniors-in-age-of-llm/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://noraincheck.github.io/posts/teaching-juniors-in-age-of-llm/<p>Coding agents are inevitable. It would be highly unusual, and maybe even a red flag, if a technical role did not have AI available at this stage.</p> <p>What does this mean for juniors? How do we bring up juniors in the age of AI?</p> <p>These are questions I&rsquo;ve had to tackle in the last 2 weeks, and here are my broad thoughts.</p> <h2 id="focus-on-prototyping-first">Focus on prototyping first</h2> <p>The important thing is to let them get familiar with coding agents and prototype changes. They should be comfortable screwing around with a project in a development environment, breaking it, testing it, and debugging UX changes.</p>