Comment by Spivak

Sample size of 1, but it definitely did in my case. I've gained a lot more confidence when coding in domains or software stacks I've never touched before, because I know I can trust an LLM to explain things like the basic project structure, unfamiliar parts of the ecosystem, bounce ideas off off, produce a barebones one-file prototype that I rewrite to my liking. A whole lot of tasks that simply wouldn't justify the time expenditure and would make it effort-prohibitive to even try to automate or build a thing.

Because I've used it for problems where it hallucinated some code that didn't actually exist but that was good enough to know what the right terms to search for in the docs were.