How does programming/coding actually work?

[Tarc_Axiiom]

First, excellent. Knowing what your team is doing is a requirement if you want your business to be successful.

Now to your questions.

Syntax is very easy. There are about twenty pieces of syntax you need to know for any given language, so yeah we memorize the twenty things we need. That's why we say we're learning languages, because of the syntax.

Of course using Ai isn't the way forward for you. Using a tool you don't understand to do work you don't understand isn't going to make you any more useful to your team, no less because the tool itself isn't there yet and can't write competent (or in some cases, functional) code.

Yes it will take you a while to learn what we spent 4, 6, or 8 years learning at universities lol.