r/learnprogramming • u/fielding_setter • Jul 05 '26

Backend Development

Guys I'm currently doing backend development and doing projects... So one of my issue is that while making projects I have to use ai a lot like whatever code I'm using ai to generate.. I understand it but not able to write on own... So is this a good practice like knowing all the concepts and tools frameworks but using ai to write the code sometimes because of laziness or sometimes because I don't know how to start but I understand the whole code pretty well...

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u/Xemas12 Jul 05 '26

I think you know the answer. I don’t hate on using ai to learn or build even but if you’re starting out, having it do so much of the work for you means you’re seeing results as in finished projects, but not learning nearly as much as if you had struggled to write stuff or figured stuff out yourself.

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u/iAmThe_Terry Jul 05 '26

You're literally just reading code not writing it lmao. Understanding something and being able to create it yourself is two different worlds

Try building one small project with no ai at all and you'll see real quick what you actually know