> A lot of things in software development requires some basic level understanding of some obscure API you would never use again

This is glorified look-up. AI is great at this! Learning through look-up doesn’t work.

Elsewhere in this thread is someone arguing they learned linear algebra through AI. I’d love to be surprised by their acing an exam. I’m thoroughly doubtful they could get through one. AI is trained to be a sycophant, not to teach. Maybe one day we will solve this. I have seen zero evidence we have that today.