Comment by georgemcbay

This is pretty similar to my own experience using LLMs as a tool.

When I'm working with platforms/languages/frameworks I am already deeply familiar with I don't think they save me much time at all. When I've tried to use them in this context they seem to save me a bunch of time in some situations, but also cost me a bunch of time in others resulting in basically a wash as far as time saved goes.

And for me a wash isn't worth the long-term cost of losing touch with the code by not being the one to have crafted it.

But when it comes to environments I'm not intimately familiar with they can provide a very easy on-ramp that is a much more pleasant experience than trying to figure things out through often iffy technical documentation or code samples.