At some point you can really use it to get additinal knowledge (even if it's not as much as you would have learned the tradional way) but only if you got the basic knowledge before.
My day job is designing and developing websites, but in my off time, I like to build all kinds of things, including Ruby gems, iPhone apps, and Alexa skills.
I don’t know maybe you’re right but I still feel like I learn more than the traditional way (assuming the ‘traditional’ way is docs and tutorials.)
Like the other day I was messing around with a stimulus gem in rails and I was able to pop in to the source and add some print statements to figure stuff out but whenever something didn’t make sense at a glance I could just pop it in chatGPT and have it explained to me, and we’re talking private methods and functions that there aren’t any docs for. Now I feel like I have a way deeper understanding of how the gem works, not just the interface that you’d read about in the docs but the implementation of it too.
You can even ask questions like “why do you think they chose this pattern” and GPT will spit out the pros and cons for the pattern and some alternatives, it’s just a way more natural way of learning IMO (but of course you need to remember LLMs aren’t always 100% accurate, but the same applies to the people making the tutorials)
Edit: after reading more of your comments I agree with you completely. The problem isn’t the tech, but how it’s used, and beginners generally don’t even know enough to ask the right questions so definitely not a substitute for learning the hard way when you’re starting out.
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At some point you can really use it to get additinal knowledge (even if it's not as much as you would have learned the tradional way) but only if you got the basic knowledge before.
I don’t know maybe you’re right but I still feel like I learn more than the traditional way (assuming the ‘traditional’ way is docs and tutorials.)
Like the other day I was messing around with a stimulus gem in rails and I was able to pop in to the source and add some print statements to figure stuff out but whenever something didn’t make sense at a glance I could just pop it in chatGPT and have it explained to me, and we’re talking private methods and functions that there aren’t any docs for. Now I feel like I have a way deeper understanding of how the gem works, not just the interface that you’d read about in the docs but the implementation of it too.
You can even ask questions like “why do you think they chose this pattern” and GPT will spit out the pros and cons for the pattern and some alternatives, it’s just a way more natural way of learning IMO (but of course you need to remember LLMs aren’t always 100% accurate, but the same applies to the people making the tutorials)
Edit: after reading more of your comments I agree with you completely. The problem isn’t the tech, but how it’s used, and beginners generally don’t even know enough to ask the right questions so definitely not a substitute for learning the hard way when you’re starting out.