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AI assistants such as Claude can explain a difficult topic in simple words, quiz you, check your code and help you plan your week - at two o'clock in the morning, as many times as you need. Used well, that is like having a patient tutor in your pocket.
Used badly, it does the thinking for you, and you leave with a finished assignment but no new skills. Here is how to stay on the right side of that line.
The golden rule
Use AI to understand, not to avoid understanding. A simple test: after a session with AI, could you explain the idea to a friend without looking at the screen? If yes, you learned. If not, you outsourced.
