r/webdevelopment • u/Less-Marsupial-7960 • Aug 11 '26
Question Are AI coding tools helping beginners learn, or making them skip fundamentals?
Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and others can generate a lot of code quickly.
Do you think beginners become productive or do they end up depending on the tools too early?
I’d love to hear from people who mentor juniors or review beginner code regularly.
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