Comment by PaulHoule

I don't feel this way, but that's because I see them as the coding buddy I never had rather than a slave that knocks off tickets for me.

Now I can try two or three implementations of something that I can throw away in the process of really understanding a problem and then quickly do it right.

Instead of spending a day tracking down a problem in my mental blind spot I have a 70% chance of getting the answer in two minutes.

Instead of overthinking the documentation I can have a prototype running in 10 minutes.