Comment by piva00

Very much the same for me. I use some LLMs to do small tasks at work where I know they can be useful, it's about 5-10% of my coding work which itself is about 20% of my time.

Outside of work though it's been great to have LLMs to dive into stuff I don't work with, which would take me months of learning to start from scratch. Mostly programming microcontrollers for toy projects, or helping some artists I know to bring their vision to life.

It's absurdly fun to get kickstarted into a new domain without having to learn the nitty-gritty first but I eventually need to learn it, it just lowers the timeframe to when the project becomes fun to work with (aka: it barely works but does something that can be expanded upon).