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I've actually tried to use these things to learn both Go and Rust (been writing Python for 17 years) and the experience was terrible. In both cases, it would generate code that referenced packages that didn't exist, used patterns that aren't used anymore, and wrote code that didn't even compile. It was wholly useless as a learning tool.
In the end what worked was what always works: I got a book and started on page 1. It was hard, but I started actually learning after a few hours.
I used Gemini for go and was pleasantly surprised, might be important to note that I don't ask it to generate a whole thing but more like "in go how do I " and sort of build up from there myself.
Chatgpt and deepseek were a lot more failure prone.
As an aside I found Gemini very good at debugging blender issues where the UI is very complex and unforgiving, and issues with that are super hard to search for, different versions and similarly named things etc.
But as soon as you hit something it will not accept has changed it's basically useless. But often that got me to a point where I could find posts in forums about "where did functionality x move to"
Just like VR I think the bubble will burst and it will remain a niche technology that can be fine tuned for certain professions or situations.
People getting excited for ways for ai to control their PCs are probably going to be in for a bad time..