Honestly I feel I have never learned as much as I do now.

LLMs remove quite a lot of fatigue from my job. I am a consultant/freelancer, but even as an employee large parts of my job was not writing the code, but taking notes and jumping from file to file to connect the dots. Or trying to figure out the business logic of some odd feature. Or the endless googling for responses lying deep inside some github issue or figuring out some advances regex or unix tool pattern. Or writing plans around the business logic and implementation changes.

LLMs removed the need for most of it which means that I'm less fatigued when it comes to reading code, focusing on architectural and product stuff. I can experiment more, and I have the mental strength to do some leetcode/codewars exercise where incidentally I'll also learn stuff by comparing my solution to others that can then apply back to my code. I am less bored and fatigued by the details to take some time more focusing on the design.

If I want to learn about some new tool or database I'm less concerned with the details of setting it up or exploring its features or reading outdated poorly written docs, when I can clone the entire project in a git subtree and give the source code to the LLM which can answer me by reading the signature, implementation and tests.

Honestly, LLMs remove so much mental fatigue that I've been learning a lot more than I've ever done. Yet naysayers will conflate LLMs as a tool with some lovable crap vibecoding, I don't get it.