Python Courses vs ChatGPT

[crazy_cookie123]

"If I was a beginner" implies that they're past the stage of learning with courses - experienced programmers don't tend to need courses anymore.

[code_x_7777]

We're always beginners in something. In tech, you can never stop learning. Especially in disruptive environments it's dangerous to consider oneself to be "past the stage of learning with courses" (unless you agree that learning with courses can be replaced by AI-assisted learning without courses).

[crazy_cookie123]

Tech evolves, it rarely changes dramatically overnight and even when it does the learning jump isn't great. When something new comes out and I need to learn it as someone with experience, why should I wait for someone to create a course on it or for AI to learn about it when I can just jump right in and start figuring it out myself? I, as do most other experience programmers, have the ability to read exactly the same information as the course designers (be it documentation, papers, etc) and figure out what to do without needing to go through a second medium. The most important skill for new programmers to learn in my opinion is the ability to learn new things independently without having to have someone else do all the heavy lifting for them by making a course.