Comment by theshrike79

LLMs are good for things you know how to do, but can't be arsed to. Like small tools with extensive use of random APIs etc.

For example I whipped together a Steam API -based tool that gets my game library and enriches it with data available in maybe 30 minutes of active work.

The LLM (Cursor with Gemini Pro + Claude 3.7 at the time IIRC) spent maybe 2-3 hours on it while I watched some shows on my main display and it worked on my second screen with me directing it.

Could I have done it myself from scratch like a proper artisan? Most definitely. Would I have bothered? Nope.