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How to vibecode less (hexbear.net)
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I have been trying Linux for a year now. I know my way around the system, but I still feel like I rely way too much on AI when I don't know what to do

​There is a growing fear inside me that I will never truly know how to do stuff without asking AI, and that makes me feel like a fraud

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

This post could be from 2016 and titled "How to be less reliant on stackexchange". Suffice to say, our ambition to do stuff on our computers sometimes outruns our technical acumen. I built up my own skillset by just furiously searching through forum posts trying to find the one post where someone had the exact command I needed. I've copy and pasted a lot of shit into the terminal without understanding what it really did.

I think there's a couple things you should do to help build up your own brainpower:

  1. Don't copy and paste stuff into the CLI, actually physically type it out. The contours of the command will actually touch your brain.
  2. Just think about stuff. Give yourself like 45 seconds to think about how you would do something before you ask the AI chatbot. When the AI chatbot is giving you answers, actually read through them and think about whether they make sense.