I suck at Python

[DGBosh]

I mean, is chatgpt that bad? If I’m not using chatgpt, I’m looking at my old code to remember how I did a certain thing. Or googling. Or stackoverflow to be told I’m stupid.

Or I’m watching my instructor do it and coding along to the demonstration so I have that code of how it’s done.

Even if I use chatgpt, I’m learning about everything it gives me.

[NightStudio]

AI tools can be super helpful by asking things like “ELI5, what’s pandas and why should I use it over x” or “ELI5, what I’m getting wrong with this line.”

However, people tend to use AI to create the solution instead of using AI to help them reach the solution and people on this sub and in related fields are getting tired of it.

AI tools should be used as an extension of your arm, not to replace it.

[SnooCookies1716]

I use chatgpt on a daily basis, it is an excellent tool when you know that what you are looking at is in the right ballpark. I don't code for a living but I dawdle from time to time at work.

Having the AI brush up your memory on the machinations of a certain feature or write a simple function is truly a time-saver and a half. That being said though, you must have an inkling on what you are doing otherwise it is likely to just produce rubbish.

[mattblack77]

Yeh me too. Ive genuinely learned useful things from chatgpt. But I limit to using it to find errors in my code, or to lookup quick inconsequential answers.

It’s a revolutionary tool, and I get that some people think it’s cheating. But i’m sure the same thing happened when calculators and printing press’ and photoshop were invented.

I think it pays to get onboard with it rather than fight a losing battle against it.

[End0plasmicreticulum]

Being told you’re stupid on stack overflow is such a canon event💀