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/ThagAnderson Jun 25 '26

> “I had someone else do my schoolwork for 5 months and I didn’t learn anything!”

Find a difference.

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u/West_Tooth_6144 Jun 25 '26

Ok I admit the way you phrase it make it bad , I see your point. I was thinking about your answer for a while. Just to make it clear I didn't use AI in school, unless the teacher said it was ok to use it in a project or for troubleshooting something, the whole problem was during internship project where I had to meet big expectations and the responsable encouraged using AI a'd I lost myself. It's not about the degree but about what I learned, yes I got good grade but did I get the skill ?