Learning to code as a full-time software development college student from 2021 to 2024 had its unexpected turns. The release of generative AI in late 2022 would drastically change how my peers and I learned how to write software. Alone, the change from having no AI, to GPT-3.5, then to Sonnet 3.5 was big enough in terms of intelligence. But the models themselves were not static; no, the way AI was interacted with—the tools and techniques—changed also. I’m not here to tell you