{"id":996728,"date":"2026-03-06T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996728"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:56:03","slug":"techie-admits-struggling-to-code-without-ai-tools-i-dont-think-ive-learned-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/techie-admits-struggling-to-code-without-ai-tools-i-dont-think-ive-learned-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Techie admits struggling to code without AI tools: &#8216;I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve learned much&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A techie working as a backend engineer for the past 11 months has shared an emotional post online, admitting to feeling like a \u201ccomplete fraud\u201d after realising how much work depends on AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>In a Reddit post, the techie claimed that daily tasks at work often rely on AI tools such as Cursor and Claude. Most coding work, including building APIs and finishing assigned tasks are completed using suggestions generated by these tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A techie working as a backend engineer for the past 11 months has shared an emotional post online, admitting to feeling like a \u201ccomplete fraud\u201d after realising how much work depends on AI tools. In a Reddit post, the techie claimed that daily tasks at work often rely on AI tools such as Cursor and Claude. Most coding work, including building APIs and finishing assigned tasks are completed using suggestions generated by these tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}