Are you undermining yourself by using AI for programming?

A lot of people online are talking about using LLM and agent based programming tools and how fast results are given reduces insight and understanding of what is being built. I’d suggest that this tradeoff only means you’re undermining your own value and use as a programmer. If you’re not building the deep understanding of how you’re solving a given problem, what are you adding?

Maybe the “slower” process of building it yourself is a necessary and valuble part of building something of value.

We live in interesting times.