I feel like I can’t do nothing without ChatGPT.

I’m currently doing my master’s, and I started focusing on ML and AI in my second year of undergrad, so it’s been almost three years. But today, I really started questioning myself—can I even build and train a model on my own, even something as simple as a random forest, without any help from ChatGPT?

The reason for this is that I tried out the Titanic project on Kaggle today, and my mind just went completely blank. I couldn’t even think of what EDA to do, which model to use, or how to initialize a model.

I did deep learning for my undergrad thesis, completed multiple machine learning coursework projects, and got really good grades, yet now I can’t even build a simple model without chatting with ChatGPT. What a joke.

For people who don’t use AI tools, when you build a model, do you just know off the top of your head how to do preprocessing, how to build the neural network, and how to write the training loop?