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I used AI to make me a little app to make my work a little easier but I have no idea why or how the code works. If I were a professional coder, I'd be too scared to pass it on to my clients without fully understanding what the thing spewed out, so I'd probably have to read the entire code to double check everything is kosher. At that point, I'd probably have just written the code myself.
Yeah that’s kinda what I mean, I happened to learn coding (the old fashioned way) riiight before all the AI started happening. It was definitely helpful for me as a new learner but at this point I almost never use it (because I’m making things I want to make and not boilerplate). I see systems that make entire React sites, which is great, and also kind of mundane (since it’s making the millionth-plus react sites on the internet), but if you put a semicolon in the wrong place in a React app the whole thing breaks. What is someone who doesn’t know code, have any desire to learn code and doesn’t have any interest in debugging code supposed to do with a broken pile of react?