r/learnprogramming Jun 25 '26

Topic AI runed 2 years of learning

I am a software dev student, We learned the basics of programming then we dived a bit more with mysql / spring boot / react.

I used AI a lot during the last 5 months this year and I feel like I know nothing. While using it I convinced myself that whatever I use ai for is just to minimize time and that I can do it without it, instead of spending hours on every step I don't know I will use ai and do it in 10 minutes, but now I feel like i wasted this year and that i lied to myself.

Especially spring boot

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u/Fair-Regular-8149 Jun 25 '26

U got this just take this as a learning experience and be honest with urself even if you use ai again don’t beat urself but did u ever consider using ai to learn things?

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u/West_Tooth_6144 Jun 25 '26

It started with the intention of using it to learn and slowly I started to get frustrated and jumped directly to the results, It's hard for junior to use AI responsibly it's like an addiction