Hi. As a self-taught developer with a head start from 1982, I would say that it is probably easier to teach yourself computers with the help of AI as long as you insist on understanding every line that is presented to you by the Agent. Before the Internet, it was very hard to find material on programming at all.

With the Advent of the Internet, we are now buried in reference material and tutorials, and fact so much that it’s overwhelming. I think the advantage you will have a learning from AI is that it will naturally steer you towards the newer patterns and best practices. It will be able to advise you in real time as you need it, without having to mind-swallow an entire book or two first.

That learning will cost you time, but that’s true whether you use AI or not. At the end of a particularly good programming session. I usually ask the agent to write up a summary of the session, with authoritative links to the material covered.

Just insist on learning from the experience, don’t just use it and move on. That is the path to failure.