Why bother learning anything when you can just use AI?
The dumber we (humanity in general) get, the smarter AI appears to the average person. You'll be a heretic or just deemed crazy if you call BS on something AI says in 50 years--regardless.
When that happens, the bridges will start collapsing and the generators will stop working. So I'm confident that when we get to that point people will come to their senses, at the latest.
Ask an LLM to "clean up this code applying SOLID principles" is much more prescriptive than "clean up this code".
AI can just give you the details like an encyclopedia article. You still have to know at a high level how something works and which article to look for.
AI is just a more forgiving way to ask something, compared to the searches of the past (e.g. searching a scientific journal database). And (for now at least), AI is a good way to avoid the ad-ridden web.