This talk is not about Gen AI, even though it involves some. It is about mindset, curiosity, and asking questions. A lot of questions.
With 5 senior engineers in the team and a backlog full for the next 6 months, the excitement about our latest hire was divided. The fact that they were straight from an apprenticeship and had no coding experience did not help. We were sure that we wanted them in the team, just did not want the work that comes with tutoring an aspiring engineer.
Little did we know that our junior in 2 sprints time will pick up the story points of a senior engineer. Yes, also some deleted databases along the way, but that is part of the game.