This does seem to be the case in practice at present, but I wonder if it can be changed. AI models are happy to write you tutorials and explain code to you. And if courts are generally unwilling to enforce copyright on proprietary code that's been laundered through an LLM, so much the better!

The whole culture around vibe-coding would need to be changed. As it is, many people using LLMs are proud of the fact that they never touch the code, and almost no one seems to see any value in having any direct human involvement or knowledge at all.

It would be one thing if this were only the case for professional development, or if AI were really being used as "just a tool" but it seems to be the dominant paradigm with AI everywhere, that LLMs have to "win" and all human involvement in coding has to be eliminated. A world where the dominant culture around LLMs was to actually use them for education and aiding code generation instead of entirely abrogating oneself to a black box dopamine machine would be infinitely better than the world we have.