So... how are we juniors meant to upskill in this new AI market? what is our roadmap

im fortunate enough to be working at a relatively safe job (a bank) as a junior frontend with 1YOE and although im not doing peak software engineering im still gaining a lot of skills and learning a l

im fortunate enough to be working at a relatively safe job (a bank) as a junior frontend with 1YOE and although im not doing peak software engineering im still gaining a lot of skills and learning a lot from my seniors the issue is i want more challenging stuff, therefore i am working on a project on my own, but i kinda do not know how to do that anymore like before (and still) I would 100% handcode my own stuff and feel good about it, but now, with all this talk about manual coding being "dead", and everyone and their mother saying they havent written a line of code in months and everyone deploying a weekly application, i'm unsure if im still making the right choice doing this, or im working towards something that wont matter in the future my stance on AI is very skeptic, like, for a senior who has learned and seen a lot of code, i get why it must be amazing, but as a junior, i just dont know if i want to jump in just yet... im not sure if utilizing AI (except for a google/tutor) will get me to where i want to be in terms of software skills, but its hard to not feel weird doing the exact opposite of what everyone else is screaming. how are you guys improving your skills? are you still handcoding? have you just leaned completely into AI? which should i do? it just feels weird to work on a feature in my project and spend an evening on a 200 LOC pr while others seem to be doing much more... this and the fact we devs dont have a clear roadmap anymore to success and every CEO in existence trying extremely hard to undermine our work and call it "solved" is taking quite a toll on me thanks for your advice :)