Comment by imron

Right. This is how I feel. I can get the LLM to generate code that more or less does what I need, but if I objectively look at the result and the effort required to get there it's still not at the point where it's doing it faster and better than what I could have got manually (with exceptions for certain specific use cases that are not generally applicable to the work I want to do).

The time I save on typing out the program is lost to new activities I otherwise wouldn't be doing.