I'm happy for your successes and your enthusiasm! I'm in a different position, I'm kinda very lazy and have little enthusiasm regarding coding/devops stuff specifically, but I enjoy backsitting the Copilot. I also think that you're definitely learning more by doing everything yourself, but it's not really true that you learn nothing by only backsitting LLM, because it doesn't just produce working solution from a single prompt, you have to reprompt and refine things again and again until you get what you want and it's working as expected. I feel myself a bit overpowered this way because it lets me get things done extraordinarily fast. For example, at 00:00 I was only choosing a VPS to buy and by 04:00 I already had wireguard server with port forwarding up and running and all my clientside stuff configured and updated accordingly. And I had some exotic issues during setup which I also troubleshoot using LLM, like for example, my clientside wg.conf file getting wrong SELinux context and wg-quick daemon refusing to work because of that:

unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0

I never knew such this thing even exist, and LLM just casually explained that and provided a fix:

sudo semanage fcontext -a -t etc_t "/etc/wireguard(/.*)?"
sudo restorecon -Rv /etc/wireguard