maybe you are thinking now – what could this 19 year old know about ai??
well I don't. but I can tell you how it impacted the last three years of my journey in software engineering
when i learned how to program in python, bash etc., I learned it the old fashioned way – books, wikis, guides
that drastically changed in 2023, when copilot came out. It changed how I work & learn new things. After about
a year of usage I hit my rate-limit for the first time. Following that I had to code 100% manually (i had some things to get done)
so... I tried **manual** coding – and wow – I have forgotten how to code. After every line of code I had to google something,
It really woke me up.
After that **incident** I set myself a goal: learn programming. After ~5 years of coding experience I had to relearn everything
from the groud up.
I spend the next months gathering a deep understanding of computer and how they work,
how programing languages were created and the history of it all.
That's when I realised I had no idea of what I've been doing before.
I still use ai today, but in a completely different way. But to be honest – i still feel that with every token spent – I lose a few braincells