[coffeecantcode]

While no AI agent has shown itself to be capable of building amazing things and I agree with your food and artwork analogies, AI agents can work as fantastic teachers, lowering the technical barriers of entry for fields like programming.

ChatGPT can’t retain decent context to save its life but if you have the time, patience, and motivation to widdle away at a goal or a project you, yourself, can come out on the other side far more capable of building amazing things, thanks to AI. These are things you could have learned through other mediums, sure, but for a lot of people it is a far more natural experience akin to talking with a teacher, especially if you structure your prompts to feels as such.

I’m not ride-or-die AI over here but it has taken me from a painfully non-technical person, to someone who now has a vast interest and a growing, albeit slowly, skill set in a new hobby. It will be a long long time before I create something that isn’t derivative but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been valuable along the way.

[krapp]

I'm happy it works for you, but given the general consensus about the quality of AI generated code (not great beyond trivial tasks and full of bugs) and AI's tendency to confabulate, I think tutorials by human beings are still the better option in general.