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Django LMS - Sheena O'Connell

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The Dangers of AI Tools for Coders

I worry about people making use of those kinds of tools while learning if it just ends up giving them perceptions of being able to do things that they can't do. I think for junior coders it's probably a bit of a danger to get too reliant on them so something so one problem that exists that I've noticed is like illusions of competence where you read the code and then run the code and you're like yeah I could have guessed that but you can't because you've just stroked your own ego instead of actually assessing your own ability to do the work. People who click onto that way of self-assessment they tend to do really really well, which fits the python model of

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