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Careers · by Lucía García · 2026-10-28

Stack Overflow is down to <1000 questions a month. How are juniors learning now?

I mentor a few new devs and they basically never search forums. Everything goes to an AI assistant first. Not judging, just curious: if you're early career, how do you learn to debug when the answer is handed to you?

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Ethan Brooks · 3 likes

junior here. I ask the AI but then force myself to explain the fix back. otherwise nothing sticks

Valeria López · 2 likes

the best debugging lessons I had were 3 hours stuck on one bug. not sure that experience exists anymore

Iryna Melnyk · 1 likes

pair programming with seniors > any tool. companies need to actually budget time for that