#AI tools for learning

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open ravine
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Heya there ! hear me out. I'm a game dev in training, currently doing small Unity projects. This might sound controversial but I'm looking for an AI to help me on the side, not just write the code for me. I want to use it as a complement to my learning. I'd rather spend 20 bucks a month on that than a battlepass in a video game or god forbid in a gacha. What would you recommend? I've seen people talk about claude, something that starts with T and is an ide i think and even mentions of chatgpt or grok.

Just to say, for now even the free version of chat gpt is enough for me, except for when I started doing a save manager, and trying to understand it, it went through the daily free usage instantly with all the scripts i fed it and then when I asked about certain details in the scripts it immediately blasted me with ''Free version over'' 😂

desert mural
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If you're looking for a chat interface, chat gpt is fine.
Then there's google Gemini, which I think also has a free version.

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Just try things out and decide yourself.

open ravine
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Oh I tried some of them, the problem was many times it would ''forget'' what I wrote like 2-3 prompts ago and when asking it for example a breakdown of how this script interacts with the other script and where is it called and why( stuff like for example when both have awake , why is one called faster than the other-this is a bad example, couldn't think of one off the top of my head rn) it would forget the first script and make one up that kinda has the same functionality but different from mine, if this makes any sense.

That's why I'm gravitating towards a payed version that actually follows the conversation from beginning to end. Hoping people that use some AI tools can give me their feedback xD

desert mural
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Are you talking about code generation or learning assistant? Because it sounds like you're mixing up these things.

open ravine
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Well both really. I'd like it to generate more advanced code, then break it down and explain it. For example, I did a save manager, followed some tutorial and wasn't quite what I needed. Asked chat gpt to make me a save manager, compared the 2, then went through everything it wrote to understand it

desert mural
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If you want good advanced code, you should look at code that people wrote and ask AI about it.
Code generated by wouldn't be "good", especially not prompted by a beginner.

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That being said, if you're looking for code generation, then there are tools like github copilot and roo code/cline and many other agentic ai coding tools.

open ravine
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Have you used extensively any of them?

desert mural
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I do use github copilot sometimes. You still need to know what you're doing or asking the ai to do, otherwise you're gonna get issues like the ones you mentioned.

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Honestly it's not something I'd recommend a beginner at all. You should write as much code as possible yourself, learn to read the documentation and understand how to use it to implement features. Only when you're at the level you can implement anything yourself, it should be fine to improve efficiency with AI.

noble yoke
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so i can answer u on this one perfectly

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there are 5 Main ai on the market

Mistral (not trendy anymore)
Lama (Not trendy)
ChatGPT (Requries alot of money)
Claude (Money, but A BEAST AT CODING)
Gemini (Balanced and decent at coding. will make mistakes but u need a good prompt to reduce them and proper instructions)

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I have used all of their pro version

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and Chatgpt is most disappointing as its limits are bad

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Claude is so good i wish i had money to use it (try its free version before any money usage)

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and gemini is what i use currently (since 3 months)

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It has gotten better over time consistently , has 1 million token limit (largest of all ai) aka it can remember history better but mostly just 200k-300k can be remembered by it properly

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I'd say if u have money try Chat GPT
or choose between claude and gemini

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U should prob test gemiini and claude free version before taking any final result

noble yoke
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To use AI as a beginner for coding is like trying to swim in a glass of water as a fish

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It will keep u alive but u cant do anything

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U need to know coding and every aspect to be able to instruct ai properly and understand where it makes mistakes to correct them

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It cannot correct itself even if u tried 10 times asking it to correct itself \

noble yoke
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Also gemini is the only one which provides unlimited access

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Claude is restricted too

noble yoke
open ravine
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thanks for all the answers folks ! Got some nice insight from all this. I am a beginner yeah, i did do a good ammount of projects already but I can't implement stuff yet instantly, it takes me time to think about it.
Same, i can udnestand documentation fairly well but again, it takes some tim depending on what I read xD

Why I say AI is because honestly it is really easier than to do a google search on stack overflow or the likes. Sometimes I have more complex questions that with google i would get there but a lot of research, while AI would already manage to do all the filtering for me

I will have a look at geminii and claude, thanks 😄

noble yoke
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its called "NotebookLLM" (I think i mentioned it yesterday)

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Its from google (the one who owns gemini)

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It cant generate code but if u upload a PDF then it can expplain things to u (For long pdf just split them)

open ravine
solar lion
open ravine
# noble yoke Gemini provides other benefits such as text to image, limited text to video, rea...

i've been messing around with the ones you listed and I believe gemini is the best one out of them.

The fact it has no limit, someone like me that has loads of questions and testing things left and right without being too complex topics just made it the best possible option.

The free version remembers tons more than gpt ever did.

Honestly going for pro to have some fun. The limit is the real deal breaker for me for the others

noble yoke
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Chat gpt pay walls every good thing and limits it alot