629: “What About The Juniors?” With Bruce Tate

Sami is joined this week by Bruce Tate, founder and President of grox.io, a small company of educators, language geeks and authors who want to change the way people teach and learn programming languages.

In this episode, Sami and Bruce chat about junior developers and how, possibly for the first time ever, they are writing more code than senior developers. But what is that doing to the quality of the codebase? Listen to the full conversation to find out more!

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Articles mentioned in this episode:

The Sludge on the Wall
How Better Tools Can Make Things Worse
The Trainable Things
How Juniors Become Seniors

Our guest for this episode has been Bruce Tate. If you'd like to get in touch with Bruce, you can do so through his LinkedIn or through the grox.io website.

Your host for this episode has been Sami Birnbaum. Sami can be found through his website or via LinkedIn.

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