I am finding the opposite, but then I mostly work on algorithms and writing a lot of code to test various approaches to improve them is boring.

Today I had claude figure out that using SIMD would not improve performance, and it gave me an analysis of why not. So my savvy improved without having to spend days figuring that out.

Having said that, I get that using AI can also make things less fun and reduce your learning too. I guess it depends on what you use it for.