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AI assistants can answer junior engineers’ basic questions quickly, but a CIO article argues that bypassing senior colleagues may carry a hidden cost: fewer chances for experienced engineers to explain and refresh their architectural thinking.
Why it mattersThe author warns that healthier-looking velocity dashboards could mask weaker institutional memory, more debugging and less stable delivery. Their proposed counterweight is to keep live explanation in code reviews, incident walkthroughs and postmortems. That is an argument about workplace habits, not proof that AI assistants inevitably make engineering teams worse. But if the tool saves a question and quietly removes a useful conversation, is the time really saved?
Discuss: Should teams encourage junior engineers to take routine questions to AI first, or protect more time for the conversations that help senior staff share and sharpen their judgement?
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