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Re:Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer ... by jonplackett on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:43AM (#43193445)
I feel bad for anyone learning to code now. The temptation to just LLM it must be sooooo high.

But at the same time, having personalised StackOverflow without the negative attitude at your fingertips is super helpful, provided you also do the work of learning.

Re:Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer ... by gvurrdon on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:59AM (#43193537)
> personalised StackOverflow without the negative attitude

Phrased in that way, it does sound very tempting. Over the past few years it's become pretty much a waste of time to post on SO (well, in my experience, anyway).

Re:Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer ... by soco on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:17AM (#43193668)
But wouldn't you learn if you actually have to enter and test that code, even if it's LLM generated, every day? Maybe you learn bad models, which can happen from SO as well, but you do learn. I'm more worried that the juniors won't have this opportunity anymore, or rather, they won't be needed anymore. So when I retire, what? Unless AI gets better and replaces everybody, then it won't matter at all what and how you learned.
Re:Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer ... by ndr on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:46AM (#43193464)
The non-curious/non-skeptics people might have better luck learning by staying with books and coding offline.

For the curious/skeptics there's never been a better moment to pick anything up. I don't know how we make more people more curious and skeptic.

Re:Google gifts a Free AI Coding Assistant to the developer ... by singularity2001 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:23AM (#43195183)
Don't feel bad: LLMs make it so much easier to learn thinks without getting stuck at frustrating nonsense, yet there remain enough hurdles so that you need to develop resilience.