[mirrorlake]

I was reading over a student's code and he couldn't tell me his own variable names, couldn't even find one when I referred to it conceptually ("Where is the variable that holds your cache?".... no answer at all, not even a guess. Just, "I don't know.")

Having used GPT all year myself, I quit using it to generate new code for me for the most part. Back to StackOverflow, books, and of course reading boring documentation/manuals. I'm not closed off to the idea, just that I'm very worried it could atrophy certain skills.

[myaccountonhn]

I’ve done something similar lately, partly I started because I don't always have internet. But I also started to see the benefits of using manuals and conjure up things on my own.

It definitely feels harder to do, and doing small tweaks here and there is frustrating as you have to really understand everything. I however find it quite rewarding because I feel I become much more capable as a programmer, and I rely less on third party dependencies for everything. I come up with more original solutions and become more able to combine tools to solve different problems.