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Discussion on: Unpopular opinion: Junior devs bring much more value to their employers than the market wants them to believe

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Kasey Speakman • Edited

I feel that "junior" developers also help improve the code base. Because it becomes the best interest of the team to make the code more readable, less clever, and to document things. This helps everyone, not just the new dev.

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Rémi Mercier

Yes! I've noticed it too.

I spend more time documenting things and it even helps the people who wrote the code I'm documenting. Because sometimes, well, they just copied-pasted things from SO (as we do all). So having someone who goes into the nitty-gritty can help.