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This was my usecase when learning JS. I've always had a very very difficult time with programming and wrapping my head around those types of patterns. But with the help of AI I was able to get a quicker understanding and being able to ask followup questions, explain what different symbols do, nowadays I use it as a basic reference to get a starting point to some solutions while just being well versed enough to approach a lot of things on my own.
I often try to switch around and experiment with different similar and potentially better approaches unless it's giving me one of those responses that have been the most bogstandard straightforward way of doing it... because of a stackoverflow answer from 12 years ago. But those are often the more simpler queries. But each day I practice my programming I turn to search engines more and more to adapt similar problems to my own so the kickoff of using AI got me to the point where I had a stronger understanding of how things work in a practical learning method that worked really really well for me.
I hate how great AI can be in some use cases while I also am part of the reason for excessive power usage of GPUs :( but I really don't think I would've been able to get as far as I've come today without it.