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by insane_dreamer 469 days ago
I find LLMs useful in the same vein that I find StackOverflow useful or reading through documentation useful. It saves me time when I 1) run into edge cases (where I might search SO and get lucky, but just as often the LLM's suggestion won't work); 2) am working with a framework that I'm not super familiar with (faster than looking up in the documentation); 3) writing code comments; 4) tedious refactoring.

It boosts productivity in the way that a good IDE boost productivity, but nothing like 5x or even 2x. Maybe 1.2~1.4x.