Is AI Actually Helping You??
There are days where you're given a task you have zero clue about. What do you do? You run to ChatGPT, paste in the problem, and boom — the heavens open, the code appears, and your lazy ass just… copies it.
No shame. We've all done it. Don't even try to act holy.
But here's the real question: what happens next? Do you actually understand what just got handed to you? Or are you just relieved that it works and sprint off to Netflix like nothing happened?
Now — if it's a tight deadline, I get it. You just want that bug gone before your boss breathes fire down your neck. But what if it's your personal side project? Or a school assignment with plenty of time left? Why do we still do the same thing? Copy-paste and move on.
And this is where the problem creeps in. A lot of learners are out here pushing "top-tier projects" to GitHub,
but if you ask them to write just 10% of that code on a whiteboard… they freeze.
The repo looks like it belongs to a senior engineer, but the brain behind it is still Googling
for loop syntax on the low.
Me? I'm a little different. I don't push code I don't understand. If it's in my repo, best believe I've fought that demon and know how it breathes.
But there's another issue with AI — the constant validation. You tell it something basic and it's like:
"Yooo Zigla City, that's insane! You're on some senior engineering level oooh!"
Meanwhile, it's just a for loop, bro. Chill.
Or you pitch it an idea and before you've even finished typing, AI is already hyping you up like:
"Wow, genius idea. This could scale to 1M users in 6 months. Investors will throw money at you."
Like no… tell me the harsh truth. Tell me this idea is garbage before I waste 3 months building a spoon-delivery app nobody needs.
So yeah, I'll ask the question again: is AI actually helping you?
Because sometimes, it's not. Sometimes, it's just making you feel smart while low-key robbing you of the actual grind it takes to become smart.
And trust me, one day you'll be grateful you didn't just copy-paste. That's when you'll finally look at code and say,
"I built this. Not ChatGPT. Not Google. Me."
Until then, maybe stop asking AI for validation, and start asking it for the truth.