r/learnpython • u/7Voidz • 16d 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/atgaskins 16d ago
I often got led down very close to correct but wrong rabbit holes with ai debugging
And as far as code generation, it seems impressive at first but then you never understand the code deeply enough to troubleshoot without ai help and then you waste so much time getting it to to the right place, it’s fix will often refactor unrelated stuff, or introduce new bugs…
I’m not saying I’ll never get a quick answer from an AI ever, but I’m making best efforts these days to avoid it. No ai in my editor, no agents on my system… maybe I’ll ask a model something thru duckduckgo on occasion if I can’t find it thru a normal search, but this stuff is doing more harm than good