We are in the business of automation, this is also automation. What good is doing the manual work if automation provides good enough results. I increasingly consider the code an implementation detail and spend most of my thinking one abstraction level higher. It's not always there yet but it's really often good enough to great, given the right oversight.
I'm tasking a contractor to lay the roof tiles and just give them my specifications. How they lay the tiles, I don't care, as long as it passes inspection afterwards and conforms to my spec.
I also think that even with expertise, people relying too much on AI are going to erode their expertise
If you can lift heavy weights, but start to use machines to lift instead, your muscles will shrink and you won't be able to lift as much
The brain is a muscle it must be exercised to keep it strong too