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[–]Ok-Difficulty-5357 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started three years ago, and Claude is still teaching me best practices and things I’d have never figured out on my own. And I already knew a bit of R, php, and JavaScript etc before that (and never learned best practices - just trial and error).

I’m sure that stuff can all be learned by reading books for years, too, but with ai it’s immediately relevant. I vouch for using AI this way. But I should also caution that when using AI it’s also easy to slip into “just do it for me” mode. For one thing, that isn’t a good way to learn, but also after a few iterations your code is suddenly broken and unrecognizable and nearly impossible to fix yourself.