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If you ever tried to use ai for code you'd know how dumb it was.
Generally it's ok, it'll get some stuff done but if it thinks something is a certain way you can't convince it otherwise. It hallucinates documentation, admits it made it up then carries on telling you to use the made up parts of the code.
Infuriating.
Like I said though, generally pretty good at helping you learn a new language if you have knowledge to start with.
People learning from scratch are cooked, it makes crazy decisions sometimes that will compound over time and leave you with trash.
If you ever tried using it for anything you are pretty familiar with, you'd know how dumb it was.
That's the only reason I think people still think AI is great; they don't know shit so they think the AI is giving them good info when it's not.
I actually started finding use cases for copilot in excel. It is still dumb, but it can mass process data quickly so if you write your prompt well, it can save you a lot of time.
And that is exactly how "AI" should be used. It can boost productivity if used as the tool that it is.