Yes. To me, it is. Sometimes queries I give it are 100-200 lines long. Sure, I can solve it eventually but getting an "instant" answer that is usually correct? Absolutely priceless.

It's pretty common for me to spend a day being stuck on a gnarly problem in the past. Most developers have. Now I'd say that's extremely rare. Either an LLM will solve it outright quickly or I get enough clues from an LLM to solve it efficiently.

I work with some very complex queries (that I didn't write), and yeah, AI is an absolute lifesaver, especially in troubleshooting situations. What used to take me hours now takes me minutes.