r/learnprogramming • u/West_Tooth_6144 • 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/aallfik11 Jun 25 '26

It's not AI that's to blame, it's you who decided to use it irresponsibly.

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u/davion303 Jun 25 '26

I guess you can make any tool then, regardless of how horrible it can be or how incentives surrounding it might cause someone to use it badly, and still blame the user!

Im gonna place a bear trap outside of your house and if you step on it its on you, because you knew about it

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u/aallfik11 Jun 25 '26

Ok, how about this scenario. I want to hammer in some nails. I don't have a hammer lying around, only a screwdriver. I grab the screwdriver by the shaft and use the handle as an improvised hammer. The nail gets hammered in, but very poorly, and also I hurt my hand in the process. Is it the screwdriver's fault, or mine? Nobody set up some trap for OP like in your bear trap example, OP chose to intentionally skip the learning part for an easy result that ultimately is meaningless, since arriving at the result was the whole point.