Ask HN: Should AI be used at all as a total beginner?

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.

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. A 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. I 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 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537424 Points: 1 Comments: 0