The EiC Problem: Junior Devs, AI Agents & the Missing Context Layer
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Scott Hanselman examines how AI agents and junior developers share a lack of system context, demonstrating with live demos how tools like AI-assisted coding reveal the gap between generating code and understanding production systems. He argues for rebuilding mentorship and preceptorship—structured guidance, context transfer, and judgment training—to make AI and early-career engineers useful, safe, and trusted in real-world development.
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