I'm a developer who wrote everything by hand for years, but now I mostly use Claude Code and only dive into the code when necessary. I can still review everything and get my hands dirty when needed. The AI augments skills I already built.
My junior developers don't have that foundation yet,but there's pressure: management already expects shorter deadlines because "AI makes development faster."
So I need to push my team to be more productive, but if they rely heavily on AI tools, will they ever develop the debugging intuition that I built by struggling through problems manually?
It feels like I'm asking them to learn to drive while also handing them a self-driving car.
On the other hand, LLMs really do make the team more productive, I use it a lot, and I also feel that I need to help them the adapt to modern tools.
My junior developers don't have that foundation yet,but there's pressure: management already expects shorter deadlines because "AI makes development faster." So I need to push my team to be more productive, but if they rely heavily on AI tools, will they ever develop the debugging intuition that I built by struggling through problems manually? It feels like I'm asking them to learn to drive while also handing them a self-driving car.
On the other hand, LLMs really do make the team more productive, I use it a lot, and I also feel that I need to help them the adapt to modern tools.
Team leaders: how are you handling this tradeoff?