You are right. I phrased the title bad, now I'm thinking of not the why, but how to keep learning with the goal of that long term thing and I think the answer is something that I must think about myself... something personal
I hope for a strong reason to be found for actually knowing stuff exist and understanding them. That was the fun part for me too, specially after solving a problem so bad and then after a long time ranging from a month to a year, finding out it's known thing that has a name and you can solve the problem so much easier!
AI is horrible at brainstorming and giving ideas and creative stuff like that I think that's the only place I can say any human is better. Yeah developing sounds good. I found some stuff AI can make something like. Like ncase interactive lessons and some other nice web 1.0 stuff. It's just I'm trying to reverse engineer those and they are so creative I don't know how the hell I should even copy them. (said copying because copying is easier than anything else, but even that's hard!)
> less than a decade experience.
Yeah, obviously I have less than a decade of experience, and the thing is I can't see how I progress. It's like AI upgrades people even if they are bad, so I don't know if I'm really good or becoming better or it's just AI. I'm practicing for a competition, they said we can use any AI we want. Later we had to use Gemma 3 and oh god, the scores lowered very, very much. The thing is I knew that I'd run into problems without AI, and since using it I forgot what I learnt, from important abstract and theoretical concepts to boilerplate code. But others were using it and our progress was monitored in time-limited competitions, and AI was really good at speeding us up so if you didn't use it you'd be the last person all the time.
It's just that when I was exploring different things, I really liked front-end and I put more time on that. Recently I used google AI studio, and it designed the thing very well, and I sucked at designing and slow in developing. In other areas, it helped me a lot, for example Laravel docs looked hard to learn for me and I just used php or node js or Django or whatever to avoid Laravel instead, but then I just wanted to prototype some idea, and I used AI, and first I was blindly copy pasting, then I started learning and that was good. But it doesn't happen everywhere. Of course I'm not saying "AI is gonna take programmers place" or something like that.