Replying before reading anyone else's responses because I want to provide an honest response. I absolutely love it. I've spent my career as a generalist focusing on architecture and plumbing problems, mostly on Linux and embedded. Coding was something I did to get things done, now I can get things done in new languages incredibly fast, debug annoying problems rapidly, and work on new architectures very rapidly. It does a lot of the annoying research work: interpreting novel build chain failures, tracking down version-related API changes, gathering evidence of popular reports on the large plurality of Apple kernel lockdown changes that perenially break embedded work, etc. I'm working in hardware. Electronics. Physics. Mechanical. Supply chain. Software. EVERYTHING. It's a goddamn superpower. I can't get enough of it. It's like every teacher you ever wanted always available with infinite patience. I've stopped typing a lot of prompts now and started using local voice transcription. It's fantastic.

Honestly, the question may have been a bit more on the programming (generating lines) side, but I've always described programming as a lot like cleaning. You enter the room, figure out the nature of the mess (the interesting part) and come up with your strategy for solving it, then spend ages cleaning, sweeping or mopping up which is largely boring. Now you don't have to bother. Thanks, LLMs.