I dunno; AI has been somewhat of an unblocker for me so I actually complete projects now, so in a way it's ∞ times more productive.

Throughout my life, I would start projects and work on it for a bit until it stops being fun, get blocked on something, get confused by some arcane bash error or cryptic dmesg or journalctl error, and give up because I'm not being paid for it.

With ChatGPT it's much easier for me to power through the annoying bullshit associated with any large project, and as a result I've been able to get a lot more projects past the finish line.

Am I learning as much as I would if I powered through it directly? No, definitely not, but I am almost certainly learning more than I would be if I had just abandoned the project like I would have historically.