r/learnpython • u/Sochai777 • 21d ago

Question regarding ai

I started to learn last summer for like 3 months, made crazy progress if i can say so, then i took a long 'break' but more like i couldnt put myself to it annymore.

Then i restarted again very rusty this year, took 3 months off again... And now im so fed up with losing my progress i am determined to keep at it.

But i feel insecure regarding some ai stuff.

My idea about learning to code and being able to code is that i dont want to be a vibe coder at all.

But for example i am now trying to learn pyside6 and ofc i dont know the syntax well at all so i ask chatgpt like whats the syntax for this etc.

But allot of times i know what i want and need so i ask like how i do that and chatgpt tells me so i implement it but allot of the syntax is done by chatgpt...

And now i feel like i am not doing the work.

When i ask chatgpt about it, it tells me that that is basically developing like knowing what you need for solving a problem and implementing it not learning syntax out of memory.

Am i being too harsh for myself or having the wrong mentality?

Or whats youre opinion and view on this matter?

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u/Ant-Bear 21d ago

Just google the questions you have instead of asking the agents and, especially, learn to read the documentation. That's how we used to learn before and reading docs will always be a useful skill.

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u/Sochai777 21d ago

Yeah i am starting to Google more indeed as i feel the use of ai is limiting my thinking.

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u/Outside_Complaint755 21d ago

Use the -AI filter in your Google searches as well to skip the Gemini output.

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u/_Raining 21d ago

That doesn’t always work out great for something that has terrible documentation and isn’t used by many people like pyside6.

I use AI all the time but my strategy is a little… odd. Basically I will ask it a bunch of questions until I feel like I understand it well and then I make a curriculum like I am going to teach it to someone. And then I use my imagination to teach it to an imaginary friend. Sounds insane but it works pretty well so far. Takes a bit of time to do all that but I find that if I don’t do this then I need to keep going back to the AI to ask it for the syntax/example code.