I'm still spending less effort/time. A very significant amount.

I do write plenty of things myself. Sometimes, I ignore AI completely and write 100s of lines. Sometimes, I take copilot suggestions every other line, as I'm writing something "common" and copilot can "read" my mind. And sometimes, I write 100s of lines purely by prompting. It is a fine line when to do which; also depends on mood.

I am not worried about that as I spend hours everyday reading. I'm also the type of person who, when something is needed in a document, do not search for it using CTRL+F, but manually look thru it. It always takes more time but I also learn adjacent things to the topic I need.

And I never commit a single line from AI without reading and understanding it myself. So it might come up with 100 line solution for me, but I probably already know what I wanted and off chance it came up with something correct but in a way I did not know, I do read and learn it.

Ultimately, to me, the knowledge that I can !reset null in docker compose override is important. Remembering if it is !null reset or reset !null or !reset null (i.e., syntax) is not important. My offhand knowledge is not getting worse as I am constantly learning things; I just focus less on specific syntaxes or API signatures now.

You can apply the same argument with IDE. Almost all developers will fail to write proper JS/TS/Java etc without IDE help.