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Some times people do things a way that takes longer because it avoids having to think. It avoids the effort of using the brain, in favor of spending more time doing something simple and easy.
This is one of the dangers of AI. The mental equivalent of getting out of shape because you drive everywhere and never walk.
If I'm completely honest, I've felt that with my own use of AI and it's my primary driver in reducing or outright avoiding its use personally - I'm not learning anything when it codes up crap that barely works, and then debugging that crap later on is a nightmare because I don't have the requisite experience.
Is it really though? Because would you have actually put in the effort in the first place to build that app?
I am sure in some instances yes, like I grew up wanting to learn a ton of different things and dove in and learned a lot.
On the other hand though, having to dig in and debug in a way actually is teaching you, surely not the "proper" way to learn and there are absolutely downsides regardless, but I'd posit it's still better then simply not doing the thing at all. 🤷
I wanted to set up automatic color lighting based on various factors in node-red, I didnt know shit about node-red though I'm familiar with low-code tools like powerautomate so some of that knowledge helped but I was still extremely out of my depth on where to even begin.
So I asked AI, and within a couple days I had it functional and learned a lot about how passing messages worked and some typescript too. I very much doubt I would have put in the effort to learn how to do all of that on my own entirely and still did gain knowledge through the process. Absolutely not as much if I took the real time to learn, but I wasn't going to do that for such an overall low-tier goal and that would absolutely have taken more then a few hours over a couple days lol.
Then again, I am pretty sure I'm some strain of neurodivergent and when I use LLMs I'm not generally asking it to "do it all" for me, rather I ask how to do very specific tasks and "put it together" myself. 🤷