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Does Using AI for Your Code Count as Cheating?
A lot of times I have come across this conversation and you must have read it as well.
Honestly, I don't have any technical or very professional view on this, but I do have some personal experience of learning from AI.
I love AI + Coding.
I started learning to code when I started my Bachelor of Computer Applications degree in 2012.
The first programming language I came across was COBOL (yeah I am old 👵🏽).
I wasn't aware of tutorials on YouTube until 2016.
Serialization and Deserialization tutorials were the first topics I searched on YouTube.
After that many other topics, building a whole ass “line following robot” with its app on MIT App Inventor, you can read about it here 👈🏼.
Like any coder, I too coded multiple programs and debugged them using Stackoverflow.
I also got introduced to Sanam Puri and Abhishek Upmanyu on YouTube during this time and also had a crush on both of them at the same time. (I know totally unrelated 🕺🏼)
how were we managing before YT and StackOverflow?
Everything was passed on, from seniors to juniors.
All the programs, theories, labs, and in fact, assignment topics were passed on from our seniors who were getting it from their seniors.
You see, we were just trying to do something that would give us “Safe Marks”.
I never tried to think more than that, and even when I tried to build something for my master's thesis out of the box, I kind of failed but I did get the top marks. (not bragging though)
Now coming to the point why I needed to tell you the backstory was to make you understand that help from the Internet has always been there for us, but only a few knew how to use it properly.
We all have taken help from the internet in one way or another.
