No it's more like if you knew how to build it before - LLM agents help you build it faster. There's really no useful analogy I can think of, but it fits my current role perfectly because my work is constantly interrupted by prod support, coordination, planning, context switching between issues etc.

I rarely have blocks of "flow time" to do focused work. With LLMs I can keep progressing in parallel and then when I get to the block of time where I can actually dive deep it's review and guidance again - focus on high impact stuff instead of the noise.

I don't think I'm any faster with this than my theoretical speed (LLMs spend a lot of time rebuilding context between steps, I have a feeling current level of agents is terrible at maintaining context for larger tasks, and also I'm guessing the model context length is white a lie - they might support working with 100k tokens but agents keep reloading stuff to context because old stuff is ignored).

In practice I can get more done because I can get into the flow and back onto the task a lot faster. Will see how this pans out long term, but in current role I don't think there are alternatives, my performance would be shit otherwise.