My wording was bad. I've been using latest models recently and I can pretty much say build xyz feature or fix xyz bug and it will do it really well. It will ask me any clarifying questions. It will highlight things I haven't thought about. It will make suggestions on how to test and verify. And all of these things it will highlight the recommended choice I should choose.

So I stand by my assertion that anyone can do this now, it's definitely not a hard to learn/master skill, and people who say it is are naively believing there is a moat around their career.

So people who choose to not use it are not losing out on building any skills- in fact if they are focusing on hand coding and learning and keeping their brain sharp they, in my opinion, will be in a much stronger place than the AI enthusiasts whose brains are rotting.