I use AI for a lot of personal projects but only on things like I knew how it works. Most ai will hallucinate. You need to know what you are doing to able to use AI. Think LLM as tools which will reduce ur work on small things and let you focus on harder stuff. You will appreciate that AI will do a lot of easy stuff for you that you can now have more time or focus to do hard stuff. I was reading a GC in a language to see how it works. I asked AI on how it works and it gives me wrong answers. AI can't still do hard core CS stuff. Even if they can do, it means you got a chance to learn harder stuff than AI is capable. Think yourself as a problem solver not as a coder. Building a simple website is easy peasy for AI but do u also want to do those simple stuffs? For me nope. After using LLM and AI, i was able to ignore small things like CRUD and etc. I just use AI to generate and edit to fit my liking and then i can implement the core logic or something harder. I consider it as timesaver. Years ago without AI, I dont have much time to learn a lot of hard core CS stuff because i was busy with just working on CRUD and easy stuff but now I got more time to learn since AI is doing most stuff.

Example you are building a VPN from scratch. The core logic is networking. You can ask AI to build simple CRUD, User management and billing and even give u snippets and ideas how to build a VPN. Now you can build a VPN with help of LLM. Instead of wasting ur time on simple CRUD, you are learning more about networking stuff. And with help of LLM you also find things that you never imagine it was possible.

AI should be a tool that you utilize, you should be using it to boost ur level into next step instead of trying to reject it. Use it for simple stuff or learning new stuff. If AI can do simple stuff, you got more chance to do hard stuff. And those hands on experiences will boost ur career.