[captainbland]

I think you can use them critically. Probe the code, see how it behaves when tweaked, can you break it etc.? without slowing you down too much. And in doing so you probably learn 80% of what you would have if you'd written it yourself by hand.

But then there are definitely cases where LLMs are slower and less reliable than someone using tooling by hand, especially like deterministic refactoring operations can be done close to instantly if you already know what needs to be done and how to do it.