[aldarisbm]

As anything in life, this isn't a binary choice.

You can use an llm, while learning yourself.

I agree with the take on copilot being a hindrance on using your brain. While learning a new language it was really hard to understand whatever is being put in front of me (as autocomplete) is truly best practice or something tied together very loosely.

The extra time it takes you to google, and learn about strategies on how to code, and patterns, and design. This is what is actually valuable, being able to speak to these things in conversation when defending the code you wrote on a PR etc, it makes a difference.