[infecto]

Nope, the theme of the parent was...

>Don't use Copilot, Gemini, Cursor or any other code assisting tool for the several first years of your study or career.

I totally disagree with it too and think its no different than using a book or SO from the past. As a Junior you copy paste many more lines of codes that you don't full appreciate and sometimes it simply just takes time of doing that to absorb the knowledge.

[pdimitar]

I don't think we disagree at all btw. IMO we all agree understanding of what the spat-out code actually does is mandatory and absolutely is NOT optional. The rest are really just details.

I agree that nowadays LLMs can fill in for SO and Reddit.

[infecto]

Definitely we agree. I was only stating that the OP's opinion of don't use any LLM for the first 3 years could be disastrous.