If you can read code fast, it's very useful. I think this may be the biggest reason it's more helpful to seniors than juniors.
It's easy for a senior engineer to forget how exhausting it is for juniors to read code. I can glance at a page of code from Claude and tell pretty quickly if it's what I want. So it's useful to me if it's right more than half the time. For a junior this is definitely worse than just trying to write it themselves, they would learn more that way and come out less exhausted.
It's easy for a senior engineer to forget how exhausting it is for juniors to read code. I can glance at a page of code from Claude and tell pretty quickly if it's what I want. So it's useful to me if it's right more than half the time. For a junior this is definitely worse than just trying to write it themselves, they would learn more that way and come out less exhausted.