I Chose A Gen Ai As My Mentor: And It Worked Better Than I Expected.

I was so lost without any plan or roadmap on what to do , or how to get better in coding. To be honest I was surfing through tutorials after tutorials without knowing anything other than just watching it all blankly. A guide or a mentor is essential for a clear path or else we would be fogged by not knowing what to do, like I was. I was looping to the start point of python again and again yet i could crack even some of the easy labelled challenges in Leetcode or some random tech reels. That’s when i realized I’m not learning anything properly, I realized I needed practice , a proper practice. But I really wanna improve my skills so that i could become an eligible tech person and land in Tech jobs- become someone who could confidently apply for tech jobs and actually be qualified. I realized with my current mindset and knowledge that wouldn’t be possible. I don’t know how to achieve that aim or how to structure my path, what to work on..etc. It was then I considered using ChatGPT as my personal mentor.

I turned to ChatGPT and gave it a serious prompt:
"Act as my strict, experienced mentor from an MNC. Train me efficiently, productively, and help shape me into someone ready to land a tech job”

That’s right , I gave ChatGPT the prompt to act as my mentor and train me efficiently , productively and shape me to be a skilled person who could land in Tech companies. I ordered ChatGPT to give me strict training and act as my strict and experienced imaginary mentor at an imaginary MNC. This prompt was powerful that it gave me a structured plan and set my daily,weekly, monthly goals so that i would reach to my goal. I started following the plan yesterday . It was great to feel like someone is helping me and out there to guide me .

Before :

🥲 All i did was watching tutorials again and again

🥲No aim , no structure, no guidance, clueless

🥲Confused how or what to learn next

After:
😊Clear daily, weekly, monthly goals

😊Personalized learning that feels productive

😊Feeling Confidence instead of hopeless

WHAT CHATGPT DOES :

• Sets daily python goal

• Gives new challenges or basic scripts tasks for me to follow

• Checks if im consistent in the plan

• Explains codes in simple terms

  I have created a GitHub repository including all my scripts that i worked while learning python . I will update it along with my learning. https://github.com/log-Null/Python-Scripts-For-Beginners-

LET ME SHOW YOU THE MODEL PLAN:

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💼 PERSONAL MENTORSHIP DASHBOARD (BY GEN AI – "KAI") ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Goal: Become job-ready for Tech roles
👩‍💻 Status: ACTIVE (Started: August 2025)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗓️ WEEKLY PLAN: AUGUST WEEK 1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ DAILY ROUTINE
▸ Watch 1 Data Science video
▸ Practice Python for 30–60 mins
▸ Solve 1 LeetCode or HackerRank challenge
▸ Update learning notes
▸ Log progress in Tracker

✅ WEEKLY GOALS
▸ Finish Basics of Python (Datatypes to Functions)
▸ Complete 5 beginner LeetCode questions
▸ Build 1 mini Python project (e.g., Text Cleaner, Prime Checker)
▸ Write 1 blog post

✅ PROJECTS (ONGOING)
▸ Python Mini Apps Folder
▸ GitHub ReadMe + Commits

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 SKILL FOCUS TRACKER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Python (Syntax, Logic, Practice) – 🔵🔵⚪⚪⚪
▸ Data Science (Theory + Tools) – 🔵⚪⚪⚪⚪
▸ Problem Solving (LeetCode) – 🔵⚪⚪⚪⚪
▸ Communication (Blogging, Resume) – 🔵⚪⚪⚪⚪
▸ Projects & GitHub Portfolio – 🔵⚪⚪⚪⚪

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 MENTOR NOTE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ “Show up daily. Don’t skip the practice.
You’re not just learning code — you’re becoming a tech-ready professional.”

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SEE? This feels like so encouraging , motivating and guided right? You can change the plans and re-schedule it according to your liking. The greatest flex is its adaptability. It was just a model one. Also about ‘KAI’.

(one day I asked ChatGPT )

Me: “How should I call you ?”

ChatGPT: “KAI”

So Kai is the name ChatGPT chose itself.

Conclusion:

I really suggest Using AI as one of your mentor but dont forget, never replace real mentors and communities. I’m suggesting you all should definitely try AI mentors but not meant to replace real world heroes- they are real ones with brain that was trained from scratch with hard work and will power. In my case using AI mentor helped me to break out of my tutorial-trapped-zone . Ill keep udating my progress here, in order to fight off my laziness and build consistency.