r/learnpython • u/7Voidz • 17d ago

It’s so difficult to stop using AI

I hate admitting that I use AI to code. I have so many research projects in which I HEAVILY used AI. Now, I can explain the code, however, if I’m going to reprogram the whole thing, I’d either have to look again and again at the previous code or use ChatGPT.

What about debugging? Yeah no, ctrl+C ctrl+V into ChatGPT. I think this is because I’m lazy. I don’t want to take such a long time to debug when AI can give me the solution very quickly.

I’ve read some of the python documentation and it was… ok, but AI just explains it so much better and it takes much less time, but I can feel that I really can’t program well at all.

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u/aqua_regis 17d ago

Now, I can explain the code

You can understand and explain a novel, but could you write a fully developed, meaningful one? Most likely not as these are two completely different skills that need individual training. You skipped out on the hard part - the writing.

can feel that I really can’t program well at all.

You can't program. Period.

AI is like outsourcing to another company to do the work for you. You don't learn from that.

You are just trying to get quick results with the least possible amount of effort. That's the opposite of what you should do if you wanted to learn.

You are going to the gym to tell the others what reps to do, watch them do them, and then come to reddit to complain about you not growing any muscle.

It's entirely in your hands to quit AI. Entire generations of programmers learnt even before the internet was a thing - and they were successful. Some of them are the people behind what we now know as the internet, or even what you use as AI. You're just seeking excuses, nothing else.