It does definitely seem to be, and stands to reason, that better developers get better results out of Claude et al.
You're on the right track in noticing you'll be missing valuable lessons, and this might rob you of better outcomes even with AI in the future. As it is a side project though keeping motivation is important too.
As well, you'll eventually learn those lessons through future work if you keep coding yourself. But if instead you lean more toward assistance it is hard to say if you would become as skilled in the raw skill of coding, and that might affect yoir abilityto wield AI to full effecf.
Having done a lot of work across many languages, including gdscript and C# for various games, I do think you'll learn a huge amount from doing the work yourself and such an opportunity is a bit more rare to come by in paid work.
You're on the right track in noticing you'll be missing valuable lessons, and this might rob you of better outcomes even with AI in the future. As it is a side project though keeping motivation is important too.
As well, you'll eventually learn those lessons through future work if you keep coding yourself. But if instead you lean more toward assistance it is hard to say if you would become as skilled in the raw skill of coding, and that might affect yoir abilityto wield AI to full effecf.
Having done a lot of work across many languages, including gdscript and C# for various games, I do think you'll learn a huge amount from doing the work yourself and such an opportunity is a bit more rare to come by in paid work.