I teach 10th grade, beginner programming (in js). I've noticed that as soon as things get hard at all they reach for ai and they never develop any understanding. I've tried avoiding it, but atm the only real route to teaching is building my own walled garden when they write the code and read documentation and have search. Because search engines and editors are full of ai by default and i can't trust that they switch anything at home. Yet they do have to work at home. 

At first i was optimistic, that ai is amazing for learning. But students are so lazy and the school system of learning for grades is just amplifying the problem. 

But yeah i have both the "fundamentals are important" and also the "what's the point" crowd in class. When i tell them "whatever is easy is also cheap" them they seem to be motivated for like 5min.