Most juniors I watch program very quickly get overwhelmed by complexity because they dont know how to follow strategies like BDD or TDD which isolate parcels of complexity (e.g. how the program is supposed to behave) from other parcels (e.g. how the code actually works).
Even worse though, they all seem to think that the solution to becoming overwhelmed with complexity isnt to parcel it up with strategies like BDD and TDD but to just get better at stuffing more complexity into their brains.
To be honest, I see a similar attitude with LLMs where loads of people think you just need to stuff more into the context window and tweak the prompt and then it'll be reliable.
Even worse though, they all seem to think that the solution to becoming overwhelmed with complexity isnt to parcel it up with strategies like BDD and TDD but to just get better at stuffing more complexity into their brains.
To be honest, I see a similar attitude with LLMs where loads of people think you just need to stuff more into the context window and tweak the prompt and then it'll be reliable.