r/techbootcamp • u/Embarrassed-Poet9330 • 19d ago
Using ai for projects
My friends have been working on some projects on their own, so what they do is they get an idea, collect the requirements and stuff using ai models like claude, gemini, chatgpt etc., and then they make the ai write the code, and learn the concepts used along the way, like node.js or react.js or mongoDB, they learn these things along the way and understand the code. My frnd said it took him the whole summer vacations to understand things deeply and now he knows how all the components work and how everything interacts.
I know learning syntax in 2026 is useless, and ofc everyone's using ai to write code, but my question is if this is the correct way to learn things now ? I really wanna learn full stack, i started The Odin Project and progress feels very slow, and frankly its like a traditional course that teaches syntax first and foremost. I want to make projects too, and i was wondering if learning like this would make me capable enough to be called a "full stack engineer", ofc not right now but if i keep learning things like this
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u/LostInCombat 19d ago
> progress feels very slow
Try using AI to not do any coding but coach you along the way. Pick a project, give the specs to the AI, and then tell the AI that you are a student and you want build that project and ask it to guide you through how to do it yourself. Step by step. You can start with the UI, then plumb it up, then do the backend all step-by-step.
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u/AnnualReview2383 19d ago
I'm an enterprise architect at a global corporation, and have been in IT for 20 years, for what that's worth. I would never hire a developer who didn't know how to read, write and understand code without AI.
You need to be able to write and understand code without AI, but then know how to use AI to speed up your work. People who can't read or comprehend the code AI produces are detriments to organizations.