I learned programming before genAI, but with plenty of video tutorials and stackoverflow available. Someday I noticed that I would automatically hit up the sea

I learned programming before genAI, but with plenty of video tutorials and stackoverflow available. Someday I noticed that I would automatically hit up the search engine within seconds when I hit a road block. It's kinda the same as with GenAI. You just have to know how to query search engines efficiently. I got stuff done, but I often did not learn much and sometimes didn't even understand what I was doing. So I started to force myself to use data- or reference sheets and try to come up with a solution myself. And if that wasn't good enough or I had real trouble, then I tried using some different resource. And it improved my programming experience tremendously. It's hard, but it's worth it.