Comment by sanderjd

I think this is a good analogy! But I draw a different conclusion from it.

You're right that you wouldn't want to use a forklift to lift the weights at a gym. But then why do forklifts exist? Well, because gyms aren't the only place where people lift heavy things. People also lift and move around big pallets of heavy stuff at their jobs. And even if those people are gym rats, they don't forgo the forklift when they're at work, because it's more efficient, and exercising isn't the goal, at work.

In much the same way, it's would be silly to have an LLM write the solutions while working through the exercises in a book or advent of code or whatever. Those are exercises that are akin to going to the gym.

But it would also be silly to refuse to use the available tools to more efficiently solve problems at work. That would be like refusing to use a forklift.