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You will still need to learn programming manually.
The process of struggling to understand and synthesize working code is a critical part of learning. Skipping it feels easier, but you're hurting your ability to understand coding.
Sure, you can make an LLM generate code and if you're inexperienced it can outperform you on the basic tasks that you're given as exercises. This is a trap that a lot of students fall into. It's very easy to let LLMs do the 'hard work' part of learning while you just read the textbook or watch a video. Unfortunately, the hard part is the part that builds your skillset.
It's just like how you can't just watch a video about physical fitness and then use a robot to lift the weights for you. Sure, you get to the end of your sets faster and you're not physically tired and sore but you won't actually benefit in the ways that matter.