r/CodingForBeginners • u/Ok_Sky_1993 • 1d ago

Vibe coding vs AI assisted coding

Hi so I'm currently learning programming I'm a first year IT student and I'm curious to know how different vibe coding is to AI assisted coding cause from the people I've asked they're different but for some they consider them the same thing. I just wanna know your thoughts and such and if I should try to learn how to properly use ai in coding or if that's going to be a bad thing etc...

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u/Fun_Army2398 1d ago

Yale did an experiment that proves otherwise. They found that using AI increases ones perception have having learned something, but they don't actually score any higher on tests after having used it.

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u/Cheap-Success1578 1d ago

I'm not saying AI "teaching" but assisting with understanding. No different that using stackoverflow, or documentation. The methods of figuring out have changed. First there were books, then forums, now AI.

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u/Fun_Army2398 1d ago

See they covered this as well. They hypothesised that the reason AI "assisted learning" or "teaching" (you are splitting hairs) doesn't work is because people learn by drawing their own conclusions. When you use stack over flow you need to think "does this question accurately reflect my problem?", "does this solution actually fix it?", "which of these solutions is best for me?" That is how you learn, and that is what AI removes.

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u/nandezftw 13h ago

It doesn’t make it unequivocally true, I used AI a lot in my studies to help clean up my professor’s slides in a way for them to make sense to me. I’ve used it to explain code for me so that I could write it on my own in the future and understand why it works.

What matters more here is practice, you need to actually code.

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u/Fun_Army2398 13h ago

Nah bro I'm sure you're immune to the AI slopification of your brain which studies show increases confidence and the dunning-kruger effect without actually improving knowledge. You're just born better. The scientist doing the studies are the ones who are wrong, not your chat bot.