Yes
Foregoing most of the LLM's code-writing capabilities in favor of giving observations and ideas seems to be a much better choice for productivity
inetknght on Hacker News
In the thread “High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using it for observations and suggestions rather than code writing.
Got in the way: Generated boilerplate, ignored DRY, and was persnickety with tests.
… My question to the LLM then follows in the next paragraph. Foregoing most of the LLM's code-writing capabilities in favor of giving observations and ideas seems to be a much better choice for productivity. It can still lead me down rabbit holes or wrong directions, but at least I don't have to deal with 10 pages of prose in its output or 50 pages of ineffectual code.