Programming vs AI hype

I want to learn to program without AI, trial and errors, reading documentations and just learn to debug by understanding errors. It's the part that takes the longest but most rewarding and where you actually learn. But with AI hype and things, and the fact I also started learning programming late, I feel behind, I feel as if I'm not valuable if I don't learn about AI, AI frameworks, AI agents etc etc. I'm still in my second year of bachelor degre