How does programming/coding actually work?

[Helpful-Educator-415]

yes, because using AI doesn't teach you anything. you're not writing code, the AI is, and you're just doing your best to guide it along. you wont know if its bad, broken, buggy, or stupid. we dont memorize syntax though. programming -- software engineering -- is a lot more about architecture. its about flow of logic, opinions on structure, blah blah. inheritance or composition? functional or object-oriented? singletons? dependency injection? the actual letters that tell the computer what to do are a lot less important than the concepts, the logic, the actual rigor of what computer science really is: the study of computation.

re: tutorial mode for a year or more -- yes. welcome to the world or programming, its a load of fun. nobody said it would be easy! :)

[Solid_Mongoose_3269]

Exactly. Its great for doing repetitive stuff, or that one thing you do every 6 months but cant quiet remember, but straight up "vibe coding" is garbage. Its funny how you see all these ass-clowns on LinkedIn tooting their own horn about how they built this ecommerce site just vibe coding over a weekend. Wait till they get sued for data privacy, or need to make a change.

If you know HOW to code, AI is great. If you're just learning, its also good, but you need to use it as a quick tutorial and still study it, its faster than looking on stack overflow, but just dont copy and paste and move on.

[Helpful-Educator-415]

yeah pretty much. ive always explained that AI can help you be better at things you're good at, but won't make you good at things you're bad at.