Let me be clear: AI assisted coding is fucking awesome for making people feel empowered to just make something they would never have been able to make without that help.
Is the code "production level"? Who the fuck cares, it's their personal project, fuck off with your gatekeeping.
Does it work? Cool. Did they remember to ask the AI to check for security issues? Even better.
They're not trying to create the next Google. But even if they were: do you even know how Google started? It was jank.
And let's be clear version 2: Are they learning? Yeah, they are. Are they learning everything? No, of course not, that's never been how learning happened. They are (re)learning things like "oh yeah, I can just set a class on this HTML element" and "oh right, I can just <fill in anything here>".
AI isn't a silver bullet, but yes: people learn from using AI. The *way* they learn has changed, and those who want to be, or are (I'm so sorry) teachers need to adapt to that.
Learning changed.
Pomax