[richardw]

Use it. It's going to sometimes accelerate your understanding hugely because you can interrogate it about a new area. It's also going to lie to you, quite often, and give you rubbish code / suggestions. Learn to figure out where it's good and where it's rubbish.

Ask it to explain every line of something, after the fact. Ask it for better ways of doing things. Ask it how you can make code more robust, what and how you can test it. Be better than your peers at using it. The world will only increase usage of this new thing so why not just be really good at it.

In the grand scheme of things it's about the value that you add, and some of that will be getting into a new problem fast and sometimes it'll be your understanding of fundamentals. Do both, use whatever tools you need. Buy books, read open source code, read blogs, use AI.