Week 1: Building Without the AI Crutch

Hi everyone,

I’m starting this space to document my journey, projects, and competition builds.

As a third-year engineering student, I’ve explored a lot of domain areas. Lately, though, I’ve realized something: over-relying on AI for coding is making me rust. While LLMs speed up code generation, I’ve noticed that when faced with complex, original problems, my ability to think through code independently has taken a hit.

Moving forward, I’m changing my workflow:

Coding: Minimal to no AI generation. I want to build core problem-solving muscle memory back up.

Learning: Using AI as a tutor/conceptual accelerator to digest new ideas faster.

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First Milestone:
I’m learning JAX and converting a Python-based game engine into JAX to make execution fast and parallelized.

I’ve got a few other projects running alongside this which I’ll share in next Sunday’s update. Stay tuned!