The past two courses at HES have allowed, even encouraged, use of AI, or rather LLMs. I did use the LLMs yet still spent considerable time learning the traditional method. However, I could feel the pull of just copying/pasting from the chatbot window, and even started to default to using the chatbot first.
As Alan Jacobs states, offloading one’s critical thinking to AI kicks the can down the road, meaning that eventually, the skills necessary to thrive in an adult life won’t be accessible if one is not in front of a computer to gain access to the chatbot. Instead of learning those necessary skills, using AI only makes you a better prompt engineer.