But this is the issue I have. I will have removed all desirable difficulties from that harder endeavor and I will have learned very little, if nothing

I found that AI is excellent in narrow tasks(like bootsratpping some typical crud app), but suck in wide scope use-cases: business strategy for go to market, nontrivial product/infra/algorithms, etc, and need to be guided. I feel last part is more interesting than first part.