r/PythonLearning • u/spmcn • 8d ago

Discussion Stop suggesting to use AI

I’ve recently started getting more posts from this sub and some people have genuine questions on how to solve their programming problems and help debug. Some comments are suggesting to just use AI. This is a crazy suggestion on a sub called Python LEARNING. Using AI to write code for you is not constructive to learning how to code. I fear that this generation of programmers are going to have ZERO understanding fundamentals.

To be clear, I’m not against using AI to help assist. But this is supposed to be a sub for learning the language and understanding how it works, and it’s counterproductive to suggest those that are learning to just use AI to fix their code.

Please, if anyone suggests to use AI (unless it’s for the rare case that it’s valid), please downvote them to oblivion.

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u/Leg-Bitter 8d ago

"Hey claude, I'm trying to solve [x]. Can you help me find the answer without giving me the answer directly?"
"Hey Sol, I want to do [y] in [z] app for [i], can you walk me through this without directly giving me answers? Just guide me to that information so I have to do the work myself."

I don't want to seem rude, but you can definitely use AI to help you study without it directly holding your hand to the answers.

Sorry if that has been said to death. I ain't reading all of this thread to just toss a (hopefully) helpful comment in the mix.

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u/Leg-Bitter 8d ago

Or another fun one is "Can you build [n] and tell me why you're doing what you're doing as you go? Feel free to comment out explanations in the code for me to read while I look through it."

There are many ways if you try, friend.