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This video is based on this research studying novices programmers with eyetracking & interviews.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17739

I'm finding this to be true with my experience. Noivces used to be a self solving problem... they got better or gave up.

Now they can present 80% solutions which cause bugs and eat up more experienced devs time. The worst part is they dont build the skills as they program continuing to defer to GenAI

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