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Stop vibing and use your own brain. After you have learned enough and consider yourself a software engineer you can restart using AI-tools. Only then you will have enough knowledge and experience to review the output of those machines.

And don't you dare to ever open a pull request with AI generated code in any free and open source project.

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You mean well but this is not helpful advice.

I think the spirit is in the right place but the framing is too extreme.

I am never going to be a software engineer either but I took a CS101 class and then data structures and algorithms.

Going from zero to passing those classes was the most useful combination of things I ever learned.

I am so glad I got to do this way before LLMs because I think I am absolutely the type of person who would have used LLMs to cheat and learn nothing from the class.

I think at least those concepts are vastly worth struggling with without the help of LLMs.

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