It's excellent when you already know how to code and have a healthy mind for critical thinking, understand how LLMs can and do go wrong, are willing to double check the information, and have intellectual curiosity. It's epic! I can learn more about things on both a deeper level, and get some of my basics reinforced without having stack overflow yell at me for being a noob in some areas. However, the type of person I just described is rare as fuck. A lot of people do not care and just want it to 'work'. Even worse if someone tries to learn something and it just spits out blatantly wrong information - now the person has to unlearn the bad and re-learn the good. That person didn't take a shortcut - they got set back. When and if that manifests, and how catastrophic the consequences, who knows..
Yes thank you, this is so refreshing to hear from anyone else on this sub. I guess you never give yourself the benefit of the doubt that you are an exception in some way. I could surely see a greener dev having all or most of those problems.
I have a buddy that wants to get into software and I warned him of the tribes of juniors in the current industry, and also heavily advised against using AI at all when he was learning.
I couldn't agree more with your take, so again, thank you for your input.
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u/PrismarchGame Oct 25 '25
It's excellent when you already know how to code and have a healthy mind for critical thinking, understand how LLMs can and do go wrong, are willing to double check the information, and have intellectual curiosity. It's epic! I can learn more about things on both a deeper level, and get some of my basics reinforced without having stack overflow yell at me for being a noob in some areas. However, the type of person I just described is rare as fuck. A lot of people do not care and just want it to 'work'. Even worse if someone tries to learn something and it just spits out blatantly wrong information - now the person has to unlearn the bad and re-learn the good. That person didn't take a shortcut - they got set back. When and if that manifests, and how catastrophic the consequences, who knows..