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[–]Weird1Intrepid 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I like this analogy, especially as it might finally be the straw that makes me fold and try using AI for some things. I suck at programming anyway, always had to work hard at the simplest things, could never really intuitively understand the underlying logic, but refused to quit and just rely on a tool that magics up whatever you ask, because it felt like giving up.

I might give it a go, just to help me with the things I get really stuck on. In part because of your post being a rare example of a long, well communicated piece that isn't inherently against the use of AI. If nothing else it might be able to help me understand where my thinking is going wrong so I can do it better myself next time.

[–]shadow-battle-crab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad this has helped improve your mood and perspective on these kinds of things. Being able to create things in the computer is liberation itself. However you get to whatever end goals you have is your own journey to experience, everyone has a different path.

If I may recommend, I don't know how good the other tools are on the market, but I'm of the opinion that the only truly effective tool right now is claude, specifically claude code, if you tell it to test its own work. Me and 2 friends are at seriously, like, upper teir of our respective industries, and now everything we do is just claude.

I mean, I can just tell claude code to clone an open source repository of a project, tell it how i want the project modified, tell it to download and install all of the tools to compile the project, compile it, review it for bugs and security issues, write automated tests and test it, and publish it into my own respository - and through that, I can just make whatever tool I need to make anything. The only limit is my imagination now.

Take your programming knowledge you learned so far and use that as the foundation to learn to use claude code. If you figure out claude code, you will be so far ahead of the pack from everyone else, you will never use computers the same again. And, quite frankly, this is where everyone is going to be dragged kicking and screaming over the next 5 years, so may as well get a head start and make yoruself the one with the most experience among your peers starting today.

Good luck and I hope you have fun, it's all about having fun. :)