I Think ChatGPT and AI is Bad for New Programmers

Jannis Milz
3 min readJan 14, 2024

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The year 2023 has been shaped by the release of ChatGPT, and even today, more AI projects are released daily. Everyone who has tried some of them knows they’re amazing, and you can generate content super fast and easily with them.

But what if I told you it’s bad for you as a new programmer learning how to code?

The fact that you can easily get a working code snippet by just typing a short and simple prompt like “Write me a QR-Code generator in Python” is just mindblowing. Even tho it’s mindblowing it brings up some huge concerns about the future of programming.

People start to think “Why should I even consider learning programming if ChatGPT can do it for me?” and that’s a problem! They don’t know that programming is a lot more than just writing code because it’s more about logical understanding and solving problems with the help of code. Coding itself is a very small part of the tasks programmers face.

What actually is ChatGPT?

Since ChatGPT is the most known tool out there right now, let’s talk about it a bit more and what it’s actually about. I’m not going extremely in-depth but as much as needed to understand my further points.

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Jannis Milz

An always-wanting-to-learn-more person. Developer advocate. Obsessed with self-improvement and efficiency.