It sounds like your addicted to it. Your best path forward is to talk to others about it, admit you’re really struggling to kick the habit, and be honest with yourself when you fall back into old habits. Just like you would with any addiction. It is possible to learn to modulate your usage, so you are only relying on it for part of your work load. I’m not sure if you want to strike that balance or not. Personally, I have been very wary of using ai in my own (professional) code. I’ve seen others fall into the same trap as you, and become incapable of thinking on their own. I’ve run several tests against it, and use the ai in Google to ask vague questions (how do I x in y language) but I’m very careful not to go all in, because I know i would loose my mind in the process.

You can use AI to learn though. Every time it generates code that you don’t understand you could ask it to explain it to you. It’s definitely fine to use AI to finish things quickly but you must understand that AI will only ever generate the best outcome if you yourself understand the code it outputs because AI tends to make mistake. And as an engineer you should never let AI decide on how to achieve an outcome, it should always be you guiding it and telling it how you want that outcome to be achieved. Think of it as you being the senior engineer telling your junior what to do step by step to ensure your architecture gets followed. You simply no longer have to do the menial task of writing the code but the whole engineering and thinking that still needs to come from you.