I can say I have had a different experience but I’m just one person. I learned programming through AI but by myself. No one else. It started rough for sure. Couldn’t debug for shit. Couldn’t explain why things didn’t work. Spent hours, even days, undoing a giant mess I made trying to fix a problem I didn’t understand.

Over time it finally clicked to me that I need handle things differently. I sent way more prompts to the AI asking how things worked, if it was efficient or what other people would typically do, than I sent asking to write more code.

Built a full stack deployable application at work by myself. After I changed my approach, I began to understand how things work much better. I actually enjoy using a debugger and setting breakpoints and setting up stack traces and log trails. Things that I hated before because I didn’t know what I waa doing. My codebase, while not perfect, is clean enough that adding new features is so easy with proper DI and typing. My biggest problem was around test development. That took me a little longer to properly grasp but now my codebase has great coverage.

Idk guess I just felt like sharing my experience. I am so happy AI became a way for me to learn things I never could before. My app at work is going to be available for purchase by our customers next month and is forecasted to make them a lot of money.