The common AI dependency well that quite a few of us junior developers are stuck in
I've been working for quite some times now in my first software development role. Been using gpt to handle all my tickets. At first it was plain old copy past, test, paste output, re-run, and repeat. It is.a huge codebase, but now as I've worked on a few things, they are making more and more sense, I'm able to apply my own thought process, and do my own analysis on how things work (but only to a certain extent, it's a net positive difference but doesn't mean I'm independent and competent), maybe here and there I'll write a line of code myself if I can reference something similar nearby. I was able to put out some good output, but again, heavily dependent on gpt. But I don't think this is sustainable, I really want to develop the skill of being able to write my own code. I am incredibly dependent on using ai for generating code. But with a codebase so complex, where can I even begin to learn code to a degree where I can contribute to it, I barely even know regular syntax if I was asked to write a basic program for some simple algorithm or build some basic tool, and I dont know how to write any of this myself. My current ability is understanding how to use all these tools and just understanding the interactions between various things, its an understanding of things from a high-level perspective, but going further down into the more technical layers, you lose me.