#a third reason is theres always going fo be some smartass who knows more than you and will try to belittle you and ill be damned if id

[eroz-codes]

That's totally ok!!! To be honest I have two thoughts on this matter.

1. It's incredibly difficult to learn how to program, regardless of if you're in a structured classroom or not, unless you have someone that you can constantly ask questions and bounce ideas off of. ChatGPT in a really good job of being a semi-replacement, so long as you understand that there are certain nuances to coding that ChatGPT can't provide and you'll look for those elsewhere.

2. The one thing chat GPT does really well that classrooms do not, is personal projects. I have found that I learned coding languages best when I download a repo in the target coding language off of GitHub and just tinker around within till I find something that I want to fix, add, or change. When you're doing that, you need someone who can either fully understand the context of the code which really isn't easy to do with a person since you're doing personal project. This is where ChatGPT excels in my opinion.

And honestly all in all, it's ok to know nothing. Please allow yourself to know nothing. Because I've been programming basically all my life and I still feel like I know nothing. The only difference between now and my younger self is that I find that exciting. To have the privilege of learning is something our ancestors may have only dreamed of, and probably never would have thought possible at the scale of modern internet.

is it normal... to feel so fake? Tried to work on my text-base quiz project in java for class and i feel like i constantly have to go back to AI to figure out what i need to do next. I know what things are but i have no idea how to do it from my own mind.

i feel like i made a mistake again going back to school now, i feel like no matter what field i go into im so average in it or can barely pass the beginner segment. i feel like am imposter. this happened when i went for an art degree and inevitably dropped out. i dont know what to do