Depends on how you're using the LLMs. It can also be like having someone else around to chop the onions, wash the pans and find the ingredients when you need them.

The head chefs at most restaurants delegate the majority of details of dishes to their kitchen staff, then critique and refine.

This approach seems to have worked out for both Warhol and Chihuly.

As long as you get the dish you want when before you couldn’t have it — who cares?

Are you even cooking if you did not collect your own ingredients and forge your own tools??

Isn't that still considered cooking? If I describe the dish I want, and someone else makes it for me, I was still the catalyst for that dish. It would not have existed without me. So yes, I did cook it.

Flipping toggle switches went out of fashion many, many, many years ago. We've been describing to trainees (compilers) the dish we want for longer than most on HN have been alive.