{"slug": "ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner", "title": "Ask HN: Should AI be used at all as a total beginner?", "summary": "A user on Hacker News asks whether AI should be used by total beginners learning programming, citing personal challenges with undiagnosed ADHD and aspirations to become a game developer or hardware engineer. The post seeks advice and disconfirming arguments to avoid confirmation bias.", "body_md": "I aspire to be a game developer or hardware engineer. Life has been rocky because of my undiagnosed ADHD (currently in the process of getting a treatment for it) and trying to get my highschool diploma but now I wish to start my journey into making games or tinkering with hardware.\n\nA problem keeps nagging at the back of my mind though.. *Should AI be used at the beginning stages of learning programming?* I try to remain neutral in most cases when I don't know something concretely but the more I venture into this landscape of AI & try to understand it I feel like my head's going to explode from all of the new terms (e.g. AI vegan, who even came up with that??) and from all the vast opinions on LLMs.\n\nI only ask for some advice from you guys, I also seek disconfirming arguments as to avoid confirmation bias. Any comments would be heavily appreciated. I wish you all the best!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537424](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537424)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537424", "published_at": "2026-06-15 06:38:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 07:12:03.782514+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-tools", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-should-ai-be-used-at-all-as-a-total-beginner.jsonld"}}