What it tells me is that humans are fallible, and that being a competent programmer has no correlation with having strong mental defenses against the brainrot that typifies the modern terminally-online internet user.

I leverage LLMs where it makes sense for me to do so, but let's dispense with this FOMO silliness. People who choose not to aren't missing out on anything, any more than people who choose to use stock Vim rather than VSCode aren't missing out on anything.

It's not Vim vs VSCode though - the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.

Using AI you're increasing the level of abstraction you can work at, and reducing the amount of detail you have to worry about. You tell the AI what you want to do, not how to do it, other than providing context that does tell it about the things that you actually care about (as much or little as you choose, but generally the more the better to achieve a specific outcome).