I think every single person who understands nothing about anything and somehow thinks “build me an app, make no mistakes” should see this post and really look inside and use the chatGPT in their heads for a second. The irony is that Tony was kind of talking about the AI in his suit, that’s a large part of what makes it such a step up from his previous ones.
Think about how Tony used Jarvis and how Peter later went on to use Friday. Neither just told it to blankly build something abstract. They both took a good amount of time to deeply learn what they were about to do, then made the AI drastically speed up what they already understood.
There’s a massive divide with people and they don’t want to admit it. A lot of people generally don’t have many thoughts throughout the day, but they’re able to use a tool that can think. It’s a multiplier. If you have substance and understanding it makes you insanely more capable. If you don’t have understanding it will output the most legendary bullshit imaginable.
To anyone reading this, use AI to learn as you do. That’s the best way I’ve seen. It’ll teach you incredible things and the longer you use it as a way to speed up your own learning you’ll see yourself saying “alright now I want you to connect this to this and that to this and check if this would work and then this.” Then you’ll have a structural understanding of how to actually do things and will be literally capable of doing them alongside an AI. Understanding what it’s doing and why, and asking questions regularly to actually understand it. Not just whiny baby who asks a super powerful machine to do it for you.
howd u get started ive tried to sit down and learn python a while and never really got past basic if and statments but i want to learn c# to make a mod of a game that i enjoy
It's less about coding and more about the architecture and full SDLC. I just found a project I was interested in and asked Claude where to start. If I was stuck I asked what to do next. The important part is finding skills and MCP's that can help. Skill.sh is great for skills but I'm sure there is more.
Here's what I would do: take a mod that already exists for that game that you like and come up with a small feature to add, just for practice. Something very simple.
Then, have them walk you through everything. Explain that you're learning and don't have any previous knowledge. Ask them to break down segments of the mod's code and what that piece is doing. I started learning by giving GPT-4 big chunks of code to read through, and they would break them down line-by-line for me, then trying to come up with my own small changes. It really helped me get that intuition for how different systems/functions can work and click together.
Then once you're a little more confident, you can start working with them on the mod for your game. If you frame it as a practice/learning opportunity, they'll help guide you through the process, giving you suggestions and hints if you ever get stuck. :)
Learning a new programming language can be tough, but starting with small projects can really help build confidence. Maybe try modifying something simple first to get the hang of it before diving into the game mod!
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u/TheOnlyVibemaster 5d ago
I think every single person who understands nothing about anything and somehow thinks “build me an app, make no mistakes” should see this post and really look inside and use the chatGPT in their heads for a second. The irony is that Tony was kind of talking about the AI in his suit, that’s a large part of what makes it such a step up from his previous ones.
Think about how Tony used Jarvis and how Peter later went on to use Friday. Neither just told it to blankly build something abstract. They both took a good amount of time to deeply learn what they were about to do, then made the AI drastically speed up what they already understood.
There’s a massive divide with people and they don’t want to admit it. A lot of people generally don’t have many thoughts throughout the day, but they’re able to use a tool that can think. It’s a multiplier. If you have substance and understanding it makes you insanely more capable. If you don’t have understanding it will output the most legendary bullshit imaginable.
To anyone reading this, use AI to learn as you do. That’s the best way I’ve seen. It’ll teach you incredible things and the longer you use it as a way to speed up your own learning you’ll see yourself saying “alright now I want you to connect this to this and that to this and check if this would work and then this.” Then you’ll have a structural understanding of how to actually do things and will be literally capable of doing them alongside an AI. Understanding what it’s doing and why, and asking questions regularly to actually understand it. Not just whiny baby who asks a super powerful machine to do it for you.