Comment by ithkuil

I think this fits squarely with the idea that LLM today is a great learning tool; learning through practice has always been a proven way to learn but a difficult method to learn from fixed material like books.

LLM is a teacher that can help you learn by doing the work you want to be doing and not some fake exercise.

The more you learn though, the more you review the code produced by the LLM and the more you'll notice that you are still able to reason better than an LLM and after your familiarity with an area exceeds the capabilities of the LLM the interaction with the LLM will bring diminishing returns and possibly the cost of babysitting that eager junior developer assistant may become larger than the benefits.

But that's not a problem, for all areas you master there will be hundreds of other areas you haven't mastered yet or ever will and for those things the LLM we have already today are of immediate help.

All this without even having to enter the topic of how coding assistants will improve in the future.

TL;DR

Use a tool when it helps. Don't use it when it doesn't. It pays to learn to use a tool so you know when it helps and when it doesn't. Just like every other tool