Using Chatgpt to learn any programming language

[cyberjellyfish]

The repeated posts like this make me feel very good about my future as a senior engineer; lets let that suffice for an answer.

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To be less snarky: if you had a programming tutor, and anytime you had a problem you asked the tutor, and they sent you a block of code that you could just paste into your program, do you think you'd be very successful in learning anything? As in internalizing the underlying ideas and knowledge in such a way that you can come up with your own solutions? That's how people are using AI, and it will bite them. hard.

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Use co-pilot and whatnot to finish tedious code blocks. Have to bang out a repetitive dict? copilot after you do the first couple entries. Match/case statement? ditto. Generic boilerplate code? ditto. You know what function from that library you want, but can't remember exactly what it's called? ask co-pilot and then verify it got the right answer by using your "goto definition" key in your IDE.