Comment by Ensorceled

I've been using LLM's pretty regularly for just over a year (my PyCharm AI license just renewed). My experience before that was pretty mixed and fell into the "sort of worth it" category.

It's improved to the point where the summary that I would email a junior developer is a pretty good prompt that produces code pretty close to want I want.

I had a weird project recently where I needed a stand alone event handler that would send an email receipt to the customer, another email to customer service, log the event in an accounting system via an API. I wrote up a proposal for the rest of the management team and, once accepted, pasted the proposal into ChatGPT (and a few others, but ChatGPT gave the best results).

I basically got a full recipe for setting up AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and SES, the Python Lambda function with api calls to SES, suggestions on using AWS SAM, etc. etc. Tweaked the prompt a couple of times and then took over from there. I had this into the hands of the testing team in less than a day.

I'm pretty sure this would reduce my team size in ANY role I've had in my career. Maybe not halve the teams, but it would eliminate a lot of the junior or journeymen developers.