> I have delivered many pet projects I always wanted to build and now focus in the operation of them. > pretty often I sit down to read how the ai solved the issue and learn new techniques and tools.

I have very similar experiences, but very often I wonder if I couldn't just have gone to an open source project on the same topic (e.g. building a toy parser) and read the source code there, instead of letting a code generator AI reproduce it for me. Because that happy feeling is very similar to early moments in my developer career, when I read through open source standard libraries and learned a lot from it.