[nerdponx]

I'm a "data scientist", but I have absolutely improved my productivity in the last year or so by conversing with LLM chatbots to work through tough problems, get ideas, figure out project plans, etc. I can see the effect in my list of completed projects, the overall speed isn't that much higher, but the quality has definitely gone up, because I'm able to work through things more quickly and get to good solutions faster, so I can spend the more time iterating on good ideas and less time trying figure out which ideas are even good.

For programming, meh, it helps when I'm really tired and don't want to read documentation. Can't imagine using it in a serious capacity for writing code except in a huge codebase, where I might want it to explain to me how things fit together in order to make some change or fix a bug.