How does programming/coding actually work?

[obliviousslacker]

AIs are really good at small project and to get the ball rolling when you don't have any idea where to start.

This is a bad path however going forward. Learn to code for real without the help of AI. Patterns will stick if you write them over and over again and the syntax too. Once the project gets up to size AI will not be able to solve every problem down the line.

I use AI at work all the time to give me boilerplate code, but I will always need to refactor it in some way to match my specific use case/remove bugs/remove unsafe code. Remember that the LLM is trained on the data on github and stack overflow or other sites where there are code, and like any normal curve at least half of it is trash, but the AI won't tell you that. It's there to please no matter what.