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That was my exact reaction after opening this post...


Hard agree on this.

I've come to the point of using current AI tools as "search on steroids". For coding tasks, I now ask questions using more generic language, looking for references, and when the AI comes back with specific examples, I try to refine the question in terms of the example that the AI has given me. "Kinda like that, but inside of Book, I actually want to do X with the Author"

This makes it so that I have to manually translate code that the AI is showing me to my specific case, typing it out myself in my code's context. This has helped immensely with developing my familiarity with a couple of new (to me) frameworks, and with slowly adding to my overall understanding of what I'm /actually/ building.


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