[pcchristie]

The big thing it's helped me with (also learning) is that my learning style is, after reading a new concept or thinking I get it, imagining fringe/edge cases, and trying to understand the battery limits of the concept and how it fits in with others to ensure I'm comfortable. I'm not explaining this well, but "what's the difference between this method and the one I learnt 3 chapters ago, they seem really similar. Why would I use one over the other, and why is there a need for both to exist?" would be a good example.

Without ChatGPT I'd just ensure I got an exercise right, and move on, half cloudy and uncertain in my understanding. The static content on Codecademy obviously doesn't explain that when first teaching you, but ChatGPT allows you to do ANY such comparison, and explains things exactly as you asked them, complete with demonstration code blocks and said fringe/examples where, in the above example, one method or the other would break or be suboptimal.