>> AI assisted coding makes you dumber full stop. It's obvious as soon as you try it for the first time. Need a regex? No need to engage your brain. AI will do that for you.

Regex is the worst possible example you could have given. Seriously, how many people do you know who painstakingly hand-craft their own regexes as opposed to using one of the million tools out there that can work backwards from example inputs and outputs to generate a regex that satisfies the conditions?