Mixed
I mostly work on large existing code bases and LLMs have very much been a mildly useful tool, still nice to have, but hardly the 100x productivity booster a lot of people are claiming
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Helped: Working in unfamiliar areas.
Got in the way: Suggested bad overrides for large framework issues.
… I do find LLMs useful at times when working in unfamiliar areas, but there are a lot of pitfalls and newly created risks that come with it. I mostly work on large existing code bases and LLMs have very much been a mildly useful tool, still nice to have, but hardly the 100x productivity booster a lot of people are claiming.