[ashkankiani]

LLMs make mediocre engineers into slightly less mediocre engineers, and non-engineers into below mediocre engineers. They do nothing above the median. I've tried dozens of times to use them productively.

Outside of very very short isolated template creation for some kind of basic script or poorly translating code from one language to another, they have wasted more time for me than they saved.

The area they seem to help people, including me, the most in is giving me code for something I don't have any familiarity with that seems plausible. If it's an area I've never worked in before, it could maybe be useful. Hence why the less breadth of knowledge in programming you have, the more useful it is. The problem is that you don't understand the code it produces so you have to entirely be reliant on it, and that doesn't work long term.

LLMs are not and will not be ready to replace programmers within the next few years, I guarantee it. I would bet $10k on it.