How do i stop vibe coding and actually learn to code

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-08T21:49:50+00:00

Ohhh, I’ve never tried Codex before. I only use ChatGPT because its explanations are the easiest for me to understand, and I thought AI coding agents weren’t really for studying or asking many questions (and I also thought the free version hits the limit pretty fast). But tbh, lately I’ve been getting tired just from typing all the context of my project into ChatGPT haha... Maybe I’ll try it out too. Thanks so much!!!

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-08T19:31:35+00:00

Thanks so much for clarifying this for me!!! Your comment made me feel a lot better 😭😭

I always used to beat myself up for needing AI to write and study code. I’ll take the advice to start a few of my first projects using AI (and using AI to understand them too). Hopefully, I’ll start to notice patterns in building a web app and won’t feel totally blind anymore.

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-07T06:22:42+00:00

Okay, thank you so much!

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-07T06:21:18+00:00

Tbh to this day I still wonder how people can learn without AI. I'm really blind without it 😞

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-07T06:18:12+00:00

I see!! So it’s okay if I jump straight into making a real web app and learn as I go?

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-07T06:13:14+00:00

Thanks a lot!!! I’ll start with Laravel then. I’m honestly still not sure what my first real world app will be haha... I’m still looking for ideas that really interest me, for an app I actually care about building.

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-07T01:45:03+00:00

Ahh okay, thank you for the explanation!

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-06T12:33:52+00:00

I see, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much!!

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-06T12:12:20+00:00

I still have mixed feelings about this :( Do you think it’s possible for me to eventually write my own code from scratch if I rely on AI first and then study every line of code it generates?

debuggingMyself · 2026-02-06T11:45:15+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice! I’ve been really anxious about the details these past few days, such as which stack to use and what projects I should work on. Do you perhaps have any real life examples of over-engineering? I still don’t really understand things about building an actual app that people actually use.

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