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How do we tell him ?
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The difference between a junior and senior developer is that a senior developer actually understands what he's copy pasting
Pretty much. I try to tell juniors that the things I'm teaching you is things I made a mistake on. I have a decade of failure and I'm trying to help you shortcut it.
That approach never sinks in with anyone I train. They seem to remember that I told them something about something so they do that not remembering I said not to do that.
I'm a senior developer and I rarely copy and paste... I'll sometimes look at some other code to get ideas, but I retype it. It helps me understand the code, and I can refractor it or write it differently as I go.
But who's the guy that originally wrote the code that everyone else is copy pasting? I think Nathan Kellert desires THAT level of expertise.