As a CS student who kinda knows how to build things. I do in fact get a speedup when querying AI or letting AI do some coding for me. However, I have a poor understanding of the system it builds, and it does a quite frankly terrible job with project architecture. I use Claude sonnet 4.5 with Claude code, and I can get things implemented rather quickly while using it, but if anything goes wrong I just don’t have that great of an idea where anything is, what code is in charge of what, etc. I can also deeply feel the brainrot of using AI. I get lazy and I can feel myself getting worse at solving what should be easy problems. My mental image of the problem to solve gets fuzzy and I don’t train that muscle like I would if I didn’t use AI to help me solve it.