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Senior Devs Don't Prompt Better—They Just Stop Correcting AI
A common belief holds that senior developers get better AI results by writing superior prompts. In reality, they accumulate enough repeated corrections to finally write rules instead of fixing mistakes each session. Junior developers, lacking this repetition, continue hoping the AI will guess correctly each time.
Meridian48 take
The article usefully reframes AI skill as pattern recognition and rule-writing, not prompt wizardry—but it understates that juniors can adopt the same practice early with deliberate effort.
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