My shameful secret is admitting that LLMs are great for things like getting comfortable with a programming language. They’re generally trained on the same publicly available samples as these courses and the conversational extrapolation is great for identifying concepts you forgot the technical terms for (ie. “How would I do this in python: [Java code]”)
Vibe coding sucks, but walking through some examples with an LLM and a REPL can save hours of navigating docs or Hello World blog posts.
My shameful secret is admitting that LLMs are great for things like getting comfortable with a programming language. They’re generally trained on the same publicly available samples as these courses and the conversational extrapolation is great for identifying concepts you forgot the technical terms for (ie. “How would I do this in python: [Java code]”)
Vibe coding sucks, but walking through some examples with an LLM and a REPL can save hours of navigating docs or Hello World blog posts.