You can refuse to use AI personally, but why would you not help yourself when you can?

… my dad is 86 and only after I signed him up to Claude could he write Arduino code without a phone call to me after 5 minutes of trying himself. So now, he’s spending 4+ hours at a time focused writing code and building circuits of things he only dreamt about creating for decades.

Unless you’re doing something for the personal love of the craft and sharpening your tools, use every advantage you can get in order to do the job.

But… as above, if you’re doing it for the love of it, sure - hand crafted code does taste better and you know all the ingredients are organic