I don't think the power tools analogy really works. Using power tools doesn't make you less skilled at carpentry, it just makes you less skilled at using hand tools specifically. If you then need to use hand tools later, you need to learn the hand tool skills but the carpentry skills are still there, and that's the more technical skill that takes longer to learn. In this sense the power tool analogy is more like using an IDE vs just a text editor.
Using AI to code is more like using a laser cutter for carpentry. You get the large pieces out which you then glue together, but if you needed to make those same pieces using either power tools OR hand tools you'd have a much harder time learning how to do it.
Using AI to code is more like using a laser cutter for carpentry. You get the large pieces out which you then glue together, but if you needed to make those same pieces using either power tools OR hand tools you'd have a much harder time learning how to do it.