[mindcrime]

I haven't spent a lot of time using LLM's for code, but overall I'd say my answer is a qualified "yes". I have indeed used LLM's on a couple of occasions to generate code, and while it might not have been exactly what I needed, and needed some hand modification, I think on net I still saved time over typing in the code by hand. Especially when you factor in things I don't have memorized, and would have needed to stop and look up API docs, and similar minutiae.

The couple of times I've done these things, the task involved something like calling some REST API using Apache HttpClient and doing some processing on the response. I never have the exact API details of HttpClient cached "top of mind" since I do this just infrequently enough to not bother remembering the fiddly details. And the LLM did a credible job of giving me the basic structure of what I was trying to do, and then I just had to edit some of the details - mostly in the "process the response" part. Possibly if I spent more time fiddling with better prompting strategies, etc. I'd get more from the things, but I haven't really invested a lot of time on that front yet.