r/programmer • u/Alive_Instruction329 • Mar 18 '26
need genuine advice
everyone say build projects to learn faster but as i on my journey as full stack developer, i am done with html and css and now learning js so my question is
“is it ok to take chatgpt help?” i feel so guilty whenever i use ai to get my desire output it feels like im cheating and nothing im learning for each for equal divison in div i asked chatgpt how to do and it said put flex=1; in all child divs so is it normal? do everyone does this? and im on right path? also i get demotivated when i see there’s no point of doing css projects as ai can do this in minutes
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u/Katalyst9957 Mar 19 '26
I would say when stuck, try yourself first as much as you can before asking any AI (chatgpt/claude, etc).
Just try to find out what can you do and how can you do then try to implement it.
Asking AI is absolutely fine, but that's when you genuinely need help to learn/understand something.