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Senior Developer. Still Lost.

DEV Community·Josh Henry·21 days ago
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AI coding has given me a feeling I haven't felt in years. A feeling I thought I'd grown out of. Every developer I know has felt it at some point. That quiet suspicion that you don't actually know what you're doing. I thought I was past that. Turns out I wasn't. It's not a new feeling. Remember the days of copying from Stack Overflow? Drowning in docs trying to understand not just what a snippet does, but why it does it? That's the feeling I get from working with AI on certain projects. And look, there's a lot written about how to use AI responsibly, how to make sure you're still learning, whatever. This isn't about that. This is about the personal feeling. Learning I wrote my first line of code around 2008. I was a kid, 11 years old. I had an old desktop running Windows Vista. I had gotten really into modding my Xbox 360 games. Halo 3 to be exact. I started wanting to make my own mod tools, my own games, whatever. I convinced my mom to buy me this online C# course.…

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