Fuck AI

To make matters worse, I had difficulty recalling what specific issues/problems that I had asked the model for help with

I feel this very strongly as well. Whenever you do something yourself there's a natural self-reinforcement mechanism. It's how people learn (something no LLM can do). This is why people retain information better when they take hand written notes. Having notes to reference back to is nice, sure, but the actual act of taking the notes is the thing that really drives enforcement learning. You're forcing yourself to build connections in your brain that you don't get just from passively listening.

AI assisted coding takes the self-reinforcement out of the process completely and you end up with code that you might marginally understand right now... but in 3 weeks? 3 months? Yeah, not so much.