I ask LLMs to give me exercises, tutorials then write up my experience into "course notes", along with flashcards. I ask it to simulate a teacher, I ask it to simulate students that I have to teach, etc...

I haven't found a tool that is more effective in helping me learn.

Great for learning for learning sake. Learning with the intention of pursuing a career requires the economic/job model too, which is the problem.

Does a player piano rob you of playing music yourself? A car from walking? A wheelbarrow from working out? It’s up to you if you want to stop practicing!

Chess has become even more popular despite computers that can “rob us” of the joy. They’re even better practice partners.

An individual car doesn't stop you from walking but a culture that centers cars leads to cities where walking is outright dangerous.

Most car owners would never say outright "I want a car-centric culture". But car manufacturers lobbied for it, and step by step, we got both the deployment of useful car infrastructure, and the destruction or ignoring of all amenities useful for people walking or cycling.

Now let's go back to the period where cars start to become enormously popular, and cities start to build neighborhoods without sidewalks. There was probably someone at the time complaining about the risk of cars overtaking walking and leading to stores being more far away etc. And in front of them was probably someone like you calling them a luddite and being oblivious of second order effects.

Land is a shared, zero-sum resource: a parking lot is not a park.

Your software development methodology is your own. Why does someone else’s use of a tool deprive you of doing things the way you want?

I’m not sure it robs us. It makes it possible, but many people including myself find the artistic products of AI to be utterly without value for the reasons you list. I will always cherish the product of lifelong dedication and human skill

It doesn't diminish - but I do find it interesting how it influences. Realism became less important, less interesting, though still valued to a lesser degree, with the ubiquity of photography. Where will human creativity move towards when certain task become trivially machine replicable? Where will human ingenuity _enabled_ by new technology make new art possible?