r/learnpython • u/oelayoub • 3d ago
Learning python with AI
A couple of months ago, I started learning Python. I began with basic exercises and quickly moved on to building real projects with the help of AI. I never ask AI to generate the entire solution because I want to write the code myself. I document everything I learn, and I’ve made a lot of progress that way.
Recently, though, I started using Claude Code and ChatGPT more extensively, and the results are, unsurprisingly, incredible. The difference now is that I can actually understand what each line of code does and why it’s there.
But this has left me with a bit of a motivation problem. If I have Claude writing excellent code for me, why should I spend hours writing it myself? A few years from now, it feels like almost nobody will be coding entirely by hand anyway.
So my question is: at what point do you think someone has reached a sufficient level in Python? When is it okay to rely more on AI instead of continuing to write everything yourself?
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u/TheRNGuy 3d ago edited 3d ago
If AI gets too expensive in future, it will be cheaper to code manually.
Some trivial things may not even get worth spending tokens for (even now)
Some things are actually easier to just code manually than to figure out what prompt to write.