Is building side projects with AI wrong? /u/worstusername_ever69 CSCQ protests reddit

I’m going to be graduating in 4 months, so I’m building the most that I can. But I end up defaulting to using chatgpt to get the code I want. If the code works, I naturally don’t bother with the implementation details other than a basic understanding. At that point, my thinking generally is, this isn’t going to any prod server, if I get a job I can learn it more in-depth on the job.

I feel like this is harming my long term learning, this will make me a superficial engineer just putting stuff together until it works, than carefully optimising every single thing for performance.

I’m sure other people have gone through this so I was keen to get other people’s persoective. How did you guys overcome this?

I’m going to be graduating in 4 months, so I’m building the most that I can. But I end up defaulting to using chatgpt to get the code I want. If the code works, I naturally don’t bother with the implementation details other than a basic understanding. At that point, my thinking generally is, this isn’t going to any prod server, if I get a job I can learn it more in-depth on the job.

I feel like this is harming my long term learning, this will make me a superficial engineer just putting stuff together until it works, than carefully optimising every single thing for performance.

I’m sure other people have gone through this so I was keen to get other people’s persoective. How did you guys overcome this?