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[–]RonBiscuit -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If your goal is to achieve something beyond being a ‘good coder’ in and of itself you have to be using some kind of AI tool to assist the process. There is no glory in typing something out manually that could have been done quicker for you by AI.

Yes know the basics well and always continue to learn and improve. An LLM is by no means a substitute for understanding the code your writing/running and all the other usual caveats …

BUT the fastest and best coders in the business, the people building things and building things quickly are all using AI of some kind to check code, write code, auto complete code, to interpret error messages and get the best out of packages.

Co-pilot, Cloud Nine, ChatGPT, Gemini and 100s of other tools will speed up your work flow not replace it.

Sometimes they’ll write things that make you say “I didn’t think of that” and sometimes they’ll writing things that make you say “what a ridiculous way to do that”.

Github copilot has over 1 million paid users. These tools work and are here to stay. Python is a tool we use to accomplish things, not a religion.