I cannot claim that my skills atrophy because of AI for the very simple reason that AI is of rather limited help for the problems that I am in particular privat

I cannot claim that my skills atrophy because of AI for the very simple reason that AI is of rather limited help for the problems that I am in particular privately working on: These are often very "novel things" (think of "research", but in a much broader sense than the kind of research that academia focuses on). While it sometimes does happen (though this is rather rare) that AI can help with some sub-task, nearly every output that some AI generates requires quite a lot of post-processing to get it to what I actually want (this post-processing is often reworking the AI-generated (partial) solution nearly completely).