[ramones13]

Talking about “actually” learning something feels very “no true Scotsman”. You could replace GPT in your comment with StackOverflow, Google, or a textbook and they’d read like the same criticism, right? Referencing something until you remember it is normal learning?

[onion2k]

Yeah, that's a fair comment. I took "learned" to mean more than maybe the OP meant it to be. I stand by my broader point though - most people will use GPT without using it to expand their knowledge.

[visarga]

Only if it works flawlessly. If it has subtle bugs you spend about as much time solving the task with GPT as if you didn't use GPT. And it requires deep insight into what might go wrong.

[__alias]

Not necessarily, akin to using some other resource like stack overflow, I now know what the command was attempting to achieve and can debug it from there. ChatGPT is actually fantastic for breaking down outputs and explaining what it was trying to do at each part, which can help significantly for getting you to the final result you want

[onion2k]

Only if it works flawlessly.

If their GPT generated code doesn't work they'll use GPT to refine it until it does. People will learn GPT rather than bash.

[Gunnerhead]

Yeah I didn’t understand the criticism especially when they asked if they learned it enough to Google it next time?