I feel like it's the opposite for me. It rewards my curiosity. I can ask it questions that Google is no longer capable of answering, either because it reinterprets my query wrong or because it only returns generic content from top sites. I use it a lot in art museums to understand the story behind certain paintings or the difference between certain art movements. I use AI for coding, but basically as a shortcut to AP…
The has been my experience as well. AI has made me a much more prolific problem solver because I can try so many more things in such a short amount of time, learning from all of it.
Granted, I refuse to take AI solutions and just plug them blindly without looking at them. I never use “YOLO”-mode. I’m always questioning and thinking about the code it outputs, the same way I’d critique a jr dev’s pull request.