Junior engineers build core skills through AI-assisted coding

On October 7, Hacker News featured a Criteo junior engineer's practice of training his own skills while using AI agents. He avoided handing learning to the AI by asking follow-up questions, reviewing code, occasionally writing code by hand, and consulting senior colleagues, and he wrote understanding checks, referencing existing code, and confirming before changes into skill.md. He stressed explaining design tradeoffs himself, understanding architecture and algorithms, and raising team collaboration questions on his own. As his skills grew, his use of the skill file fell from every agent session to less than once a day, and he was nominated for promotion earlier than planned.

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