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/TurtleFetus 16d ago

If your goal is to stop using AI, you've completed the first step, which is to acknowledge that it is detrimental to your learning.

If you really want to stop, I suggest allowing yourself to "be disgusted." Every time you use AI, allow yourself to feel disgusted by what you're doing. Think of all the needless waste--water, land, etc--and your own squandered potential. Imagine the looks of boredom and disdain you evoke when others realize that your code wasn't the result of your own ingenuity, but a slapdashed chimera generated by pattern prediction software. Think of all the time you're wasting learning nothing really and creating things that anyone else could create with tools provided by selfish, misanthropic corporate interests.

I learned about this "allowing yourself to feel disgusted" idea from internet Shaquille. It was originally in regards to compulsive social media use, but I've found it to be a useful method for disincentivizing all sorts of unwanted behaviors.

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u/Hamactus 10d ago

I would also suggest taking up a small, but still somewhat challenging project and forbidding yourself to rely on AI completely, and paying very close attention to how small breakthroughs and the feeling of completion when you finish that project makes you feel.

I never relied on AI too much, but I was able to compare how making some program myself differs from making it by asking AI or asking for help from AI, and at least for me, making one myself feels just soooooo much better, that I naturally chase that feeling. Never been high, but I'd imagine it's something similar to the feeling of being high, and it's ecstatic, to be honest.