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by kkoppenhaver 656 days ago
Someone I know has been doing this: https://x.com/deviorobert/status/1827530330208702620

Full text - "Started just following tutorials and reading a lot, then I'd want to expand on things so I'd give it the code I had, told it what I needed to do and then asked it to explain the new code to me.

It does a great job of basically writing you a tutorial tailored to your exact needs.

Then over time it just becomes easier to spot things yourself and edit/fix things you didn't even know existed a week beforehand.

Structurally it's so much nicer to look at than PHP+HTML too which is nice coming from WP dev.

Plus I needed to pick a language to learn for building my own security tools, etc and Python is perfect for it.

Too many upsides for me to ever write it off as a fad.

Learning to ask the right questions takes it from a fun toy to a Sr dev that teaches you, and a Jr dev that does the tedious things for you.

I could never go back to the way it was before

Google searches and stack overflow walked so AI could run "