Should You give up Learning Blender Python?

We dive deep into whether learning Python and Blender Python is worth it for 3D creatives amidst AI coding advancements. #Python #chatgpt

[Mr_SteveD]

As a Youtuber and Blender addon creator, I can say without a doubt the process of tweaking my addon after it's all put together and UI improvements take weeks and months when the concept and initial designs are only a few days. I made my first addon with OpenAI but to get it where I wanted I had to starting coding and doing deep dives into logic, functions, checks, and other things GPT is weak on currently. Great overview, thank you.

[whynotanyting]

I like to think of generating code with ChatGPT like art directing, but for programming. You give it a simple function(s) to work on and then tweak the result(s) to match the needs.

[jmfs]

I think it's great to learn a language. It's good to know how all this stuff works. Knowledge is power. If you know how it works you will be even better skilled at pushing the technology forward to your own goals.

[takerefuged]

Or me, who is slowly learning Python by learning how to fix Chat GPTs mistakes

[powersprouter]

Glad to hear your perspective on this thank you

[NebMotion]

i love your last point, naturally i'm not a programmer but chat gpt has been helping me dig into this stuff

[etis]

Algorithm recommended me because I watched some Blender videos and I am a professional Python developer. 2:57 : I already experienced that: a colleague using chatgpt had a valid code, but was not doing what he wanted. Fixing the issue was instant for me. I feel that I would spend more time correcting than actually writing code myself. What I would really like is a AI assisted perfect and fast code autocompletion in IDEs. Code completion rather than code generation from scratch. Copy pasting code back and forth of chatgpt is just not productive. This would actually relieves a huge pain! VSCode is just so slow with even mid-size python projects...

[mind_of_a_darkhorse]

I totally agree with your analysis! If you want to become an addon developer, you need to know coding at least at an intermediate level! I have found that AI sometimes seems to make stuff up and calls it a program! If you don't understand what you are looking at, how do you fix it?!

[somedude]

I kinda did. Made some drawings in Blender using Python from ChatGPT, mainly by debugging the code Chatgpt and other LLM's made. At a certain point, I couldn't find the mistake in the code, and went on doing other things. Great way to learn Python though. Not easy to find the bug. When I studied HTML I could use editors to debug AI code, than saw the mistakes in code.

[hammerheadcorvette]

3:43 That is called "Poor Impolementation" not a "hack"

[istreko]

Thanks for your reasons! I love Blender, but Python still looks like a huge monster to me)))). I walk around it and approach to it in small steps.

[mathvisuallyexplained]

Well, working on the projects involving any differential geometry in just geo nodes is insufferable, while functional programming (and obviously normal loops) makes it much easier using scripting

[kulusic]

It really struggles with anything that's off the beaten path. It couldn't find the camera location of the 3d viewport. It kept searching for camera objects or when i specified it needed to use region_3d.view_matrix(after reading the documentation myself), it started invoking bogus functions. All in all, a very very simple task. On the other hand, the frustration of needing to remember the syntax of each language is mostly alleviated by chatgpt, thank god. It's mostly a glorified translator at the moment and utterly completely apart when asked to do anything beyond the most common and simple actions. But it's so nice not having to hand type nested for-loops anymore lol. Nothing to be afraid of.

AI can help a lot. But I like to learn python and I try to solve the problems directly.

[calilifestyle]

I don't when or where in the video you say it, but did you answer the question

[adrimathlener]

Well it's stil the question if CHatGPT and other AI's will be allowed to operate from a point of view of absurd energy use.

[rolandopera]

If AI gets to the point of self awareness, i would imaging that NPC complaining to the Fallout developers by saying: what do you think I am? 😂 I completely agree with the points you made. I was trying to develop a simple grouping addon. Chatgpt couldn't add the bpy operator line to complete it. It's a great help, but still needs a lot of hand holding. Great video.

[thejads]

I know how to code in python but I don't know how to use blender but I want to learn how to use blender. what do you suggest me to do?

[happyswing]

Chat gpt good for learning, but not for making without learning )

[shinpeikono]

Well, python is the scripting language for blender. That is to allow 1 precise, 2 specific, and 3 in-deepth controlls directly by the users through python without main blender app coders involved. Those three things are something the transformer based AIs are very BAD at. No, its not going to become magically good in some years. BTW YOU are very good at teaching us users. Please keep going.