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Do not know how you are using them? It speeded up my development around 8-10x, things i wouldnt have done earlier i'm doing now, e let it do by the AI; writing boilerplate etc. Just great!
8-10x?! That's quite weird if you ask me.

I just used Claude recently. Helped me with an obscure library and with the hell that is JWT + OAuth through the big vendors. Definitely saved me a few hours and I am grateful, but those cases are rare.

I developed things which i would have never started without AI because i could see upfront that there would be a lot of mundane/exhausting tasks
Amusingly, lately I did something similar, though I still believe my manual code is better in Elixir. :)

I'm open to LLMs being a productivity enabler. Recently I started occasionally using them for that as well -- sparingly. I more prefer to use them for taking shortcuts when I work with libraries whose docs are lacking.

...But I did get annoyed at the "programming as a profession is soon dead!" people. I do agree with most other takes on LLMs, however.