I think of it as a magic wand that makes me more efficient when it comes to smaller projects. I now do things I would earlier not even pick up because I simply type less now. But I feel like you need to have intuition/experience to question AI all the time. Why this code was added? Is it safe? Is it the right way? Is it the right method, tool, library, maybe we can try another approach. I feel like I learn faster too, because I can so quickly ask a question in a context with which AI is familiar. I would neither down play its role or follow "learning how to code is useless" hypers.