Programmer's Struggle with Learning Coding Fundamentals in the AI Era
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Summary
A programmer who started coding in early 2025 with AI tools shares their struggle with imposter syndrome and concerns about AI becoming a crutch rather than a learning aid. Despite shipping projects, reviewing AI-suggested code, doing daily practice without AI, and watching educational content, they worry they're not truly learning programming fundamentals in the AI era.
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I still have this deep sense of imposter syndrome / worry that AI is too much of a crutch and I'm not really learning.
I have shipped a few projects, I always review AI-suggested code, do daily coding practice without AI, watch youtube videos, etc. but still don't know if I'm
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