If you're already a competent coder, ai will act as an enhancer
Not according to actual research.
you're not being judged by the quality of your code
First of all, you should definitely be judged by the quality of your code, and 10x more harshly if you're letting AI do it for you. However, this isn't even relevant to the question: am I cheating. Cheating and getting bad results is still cheating.