u/defconNull wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I tutor for a coding bootcamp and the students that rely on ChatGPT/GitHub CoPilot are far behind and don't know the basics from week one by the end of the program. The students who put in the effort/hours reinforcing the material by practicing are the ones that succeed. With th
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I'm a principal engineer with 15+ professional YOE and I spent an hour today figuring out that someone named a variable \`blankId\` that was not an "ID" but was an object. If ChatGPT told me this straight up, I would have saved an hour, but I would not have gained the permanent problem solving insight for our codebase (and the engineers working on it) that digging into it myself resulted in.