Dear people at freeCodeCamp,
I’m learning JavaScript, and I feel so dumb.
I always have to ask AI, because I’m making a silly mistake that doesn’t make my code run or because I have no idea what to do. I’m getting tired, frustrated and discouraged. If I keep asking for help, when will I ever be able to do anything right or call myself a developer 
Is this normal or am I really dumb 
?
Sigh man…
One day I’ll get there… Right?
Are you asking “ai” to solve it for you, or just for tips/hints? Asking on forums will give you more than speaking with program that would not know if its mistaken.
I write my code, then ask ai what’s wrong when it’s not working as expected or ask for tips when I have no idea what to do at all.
For example, I juat completed this exercise and I spent hours on it because I couldn’t come up with a way to make the numbers multiply themselves after each iteration. Thanks to ai, I got that simple line of code → result *= i, and now I feel even dumber because why didn’t I think of that.
I would not ask the AI to fix your code. It is important to learn how to debug code yourself. If you are stuck, I would talk to humans here.
I would prefer that too actually, but the average response time is what takes me to AI.
I’ll try to get used to forum though.
we also have a discord server if you prefer that
If you keep relying on AI, you won’t get far. Problem-solving is the most important skill you need to have, and you’re just outsourcing it to AI. What you’re describing is something everyone goes through, you’ll find hundreds of topics on this forum and on Reddit where users complain that programming is very difficult and that they feel helpless. Read the entire article from this link, it should help you: Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard - DEV Community
Currently reading this, and thanks a lot. 
Even if you do not immediately get an answer, the process of clearly explaining how you are stuck to another human is very valuable and an important on the job skill.
