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> As a result he'd get frustrated and had bouts of absenteeism next, because there wasn't any string of rewards and little victories there but just listless poking in the mud.

So as a mentor, you totally talked directly with them about what excites them, tied it to their work, encouraged them to talk about their frustrations openly, helped them develop resilience by showing them towards setbacks are part of the process, and helped give them a sense of purpose and see how their work contributes to a bigger picture, to directly address the side effects of being a human with emotions which could have happened regardless of the tool they used, and didn't just let them flounder because of your personal feelings about a particular tool they used, right? Or do you only mentor winners, and you've never had a mentee hit a wall before LLMs were invented and never had to help anyone through some of the impacts from emotional lows that an immature intern might need help from a mentor to work through.




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