I'm not convinced that's true. If you have experience driving an automatic car with lane assist, you'll have an easier time driving a 1980s manual car than somebody with no driving experience at all.

Likewise, the machinist still knows the principles of construction even if he's only used CNC machines. The endoscopist still knows the principles of colonoscopy even if he's only done it with AI assistance.

Just anecdotally, back when I took courses in assembler and logic circuits, there seemed to be no great difference in success between people like myself that had previous experience with that, and people who'd at most done some high-level scripting.

If you have enough curiosity I doubt using AI will be a roadblock to true understanding, just like high-level programming languages weren't.

> If you have enough curiosity

That’s a gigantic “if”. Anything can become a positive in the right hands, but we have to consider the societal impact of broadly available tools.