I draw a clear line between using agentic tools at work (I basically put my team on Lode-coding) and just tinkering with things.

I do plenty of tinkering, and AI isn't really that great at it. When exploring something like Windows widgets (my latest hobby), AI helps, but official docs, sample repos, and debug-driven experimentation help way more.

After all the fun tinkering part, when I have working solution, I could build new widget in a second with AI if I ever need to produce them en masse