Using AI at work - feeling guilty

It's great that AI is making you dramatically more productive -- that's what it should do! The question is whether you can be trusted to maintain/debug the code after it's been submitted. This gets to your point about 'i feel like i learnt nothing.'

This is why I say Debugging Is A Premium Skill in the debugging course. If I was your tech lead, I'd want to rely on you to explain the code to someone else, and quickly take ownership on the entire lifecycle of the code.

In the real world, writing the code is step 1:

• Monitor the code as it gets released to production
• Maintain/refactor the code as new requirements come up
• Root cause and fix bugs in the code
• Explain the code to your teammates

If you can't do all of the above, slow down. It might mean your productivity goes from 5x to 2x, but that's still a massive improvement.

At the end of the day, if you get the job done well and understand the solution you crafted, you're good to go. Your goal is ultimately to land impact. It doesn't matter if you use AI, no AI, or the wisdom of an incredibly intelligent pigeon who just happens to hang out at your desk.

no need to feel guilty, you'll be left behind if you don't adopt AI tools