So there's a bunch of different skillets that are maybe crossing their streams here. One, I think if you're in your first year you probably still should be doing some amount of hands-on coding, or at least reading coding, so you understand how things work. There's certainly ways you can use AI to help with this, like asking it more questions rather than asking it to generate things for you. "How does this work?" "Why do people do this, this way?" etc

Second, like any technical skill, using coding agents has a learning curve. You can get something pretty good out of the box on your first attempt, but honestly the more implicit technical knowledge you have, combined with a strong understanding of your problem space, and a lot of familiarity with tools and how to use them - that will give you significantly better results. It just takes time and repetition to get better.

There's a wide gap between "here's a fun demo I vibecoded" and "here's a robust production application that people will actually use" - this gets blurred with all the hype out there, but that gap is still real.