Why does nobody talk about how bad AI code generators are for beginners?

I was all in on using Copilot to help me learn Python, but after 3 weeks I realized it was just giving me broken snippets I couldn't fix. Spent a whole Saturday debugging something it wrote that didn't even run. Anyone else find these tools just make you worse at actual problem solving?

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robinmason10d ago

lol I spent 4 hours trying to fix some code Copilot wrote for a simple calculator and ended up just deleting everything and starting from scratch with a youtube tutorial. Made me feel real smart.

kai_stone9910d ago

Ask @robinmason did you even look at the code it wrote before trying to fix it? Half the time I look at Copilot's output and just nope out immediately.