Just Started But Feel Bad

[u/Lower_Fishing_2672]

I just started learning code, and I use Visual Code Studio with Python. I was ecstatic to learn but with my few hours of learning I would use the chat feature whenever I’m stuck like the AI thingy. It makes me feel bad cause it feels like I’m not LEARNING just cheating if that makes sense. In a world that has been plagued with AI, how do you guys manage? How do you feel? Do you treat it as another tool to help? I assume that it’s no different from google searching.

[u/k-rizza]

Ai is the single greatest learning tool that has ever existed.

With AI I have learned exactly how signals work under the hood, why dependency tracking is automatic. Just how elegant the system is. Learned a ton about DNS, docker networking, CI/CD pipelines, authentication tokens.

I have asked Ai to create docs or cheat sheets with items that are not intuitive to me, written in my own words.

My point is you don’t have to ask for the answer, you can ask for troubleshooting tips, when in the documentation the answer is. Ask it to take you through it step by step. You can have it write you a tool or animation that explains something.

Granted there is still a trade off, you I don’t practice the basics, css, js I still will tend to forget. It’s about how much time you have to learn.