Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

I'm not sure I get this one. When I'm learning new tech I almost always have questions. I used to google them. If I couldn't find an answer I might try posting on stack overflow. Sometimes as I'm typing the question their search would finally kick in and find the answer (similar questions). Other times I'd post the question, if it didn't get closed, maybe I'd get an answer a few hours or days later.

Now I just ask ChatGPT or Gemini and more often than not it gives me the answer. That alone and nothing else (agent modes, AI editing or generating files) is enough to increase my output. I get answers 10x faster than I used to. I'm not sure what that has to do with the point about learning. Getting answers to those question is learning, regardless of where the answer comes from.

I used to be on the Microsoft stack for decades. Windows, Hyper-V, .NET, SQL Server ... .

Got tired of MS's licensing BS and I made the switch.

This meant learning Proxmox, Linux, Pangolin, UV, Python, JS, Bootstrap, NGinx, Plausible, SQLite, Postgress ...

Not all of these were completely new, but I had never dove in seriously.

Without AI, this would have been a long and daunting project. AI made this so much smoother. It never tires of my very basic questions.

It does not always answer 100% correct the first time (tip: paste in the docs of specific version of the thing you are trying to figure out as it sometimes has out-of-date or mixed version knowledge), but most often can be nudged and prodded to a very helpfull result.

AI is just an undeniably superior teacher than Google or Stack Overflow ever was. You still do the learning, but the AI is great in getting you to learn.