As someone who always dabbled in code but never was a “real” developer, I’ve found the same thing. I know the concepts, I know good from bad — so all of a sudden I can vibe code things that would have taken me months of studying and debugging and banging my head against the wall.
If you’ll forgive a bit of self promotion, I also wrote some brief thoughts on my Adventures In AI Prototyping:
https://www.andrew-turnbull.com/adventures-in-ai-prototyping...