I think AI is a great learning tool - I have learned a ton from it.

But when I just ask to do a thing and then read the code (typical in a professional environment when there’s pressure to get shit delivered), i have not found that be an effective learning method.

When I’m learning from it I typically go out of my way to have it explain how to do things and things are the way they are. And I often leave the actual typing the code to myself, since that tends to force an active understanding that’s not required when you’re just reading.

If folks have other ideas on how to get that active understanding, I’d love to hear them. Because telling people they should type code seems like it’s going the way of telling people to write cursive.