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I’d say that my best use so far is a more powerful autocomplete proposing full lines of repetitive code and sometimes writing short methods / functions for very common tasks (“export to csv with these headers”).

It saves time in searching documentation but sometimes hallucinates.

The key here is that I can tell the difference and I have spent time in many codebases and read up on code design theory.

So in my case it’s a multiplier of clear understanding and somewhat sufficient subject matter expertise.

For someone without expertise, the LLM quickly becomes a multiplier of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

I know enough to not try and write an organic chemistry paper with an LLM. But Twitter tells everyone they can do a similar thing in the area of software engineering.