That advice was true already a decade ago, but replace AI with StackOverflow. I encountered many junior devs (mostly money-driven, not out of passion for softwa

That advice was true already a decade ago, but replace AI with StackOverflow. I encountered many junior devs (mostly money-driven, not out of passion for software development) that were completely fine just copy-pasting code out of Stackoverflow without getting a deeper understanding or at least trying to understand what their copied code does. Same is true for AI. Both are great tools, but to become truly a master of your craft you should always thrive to become the person that would have answered the SO question - or wrote the article that the AI learned from.