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> Some things that would have taken me a day or two to figure out now take 10 to 15 minutes.

The advantage of spending a day or two of figuring something out is that is (mostly) a one-time process, after that you've learnt something you can apply later again and again. Taken to its extreme, you spend a few years learning programming when your agent can do it for you in far less time, but as this post states, this kind of work wouldn't have been possible (or at least reliable) had the author not taken the time earlier to learn programming, systems architecture, etc... themselves.

I'm not saying that AI can't help you learn something, but I think when you measure its success in time saving, learning gets unknowingly pushed to the back as a waste of time.

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IMO this take is naive when it comes to actual senior developers (not people calling themselves senior after 3y).

Most of these things that would take me a day or two to figure out, take this time because of the process. Not because of any learning happening. I have enough experience that learning can happen in a very, very small amount of time and explanations.

AI increases the amount of things I learn because it decreases the amount of time I need to spend to get to the signal. But this doesn’t apply to everyone; less experienced developers need the practice and for this your comment does apply I think.