[manmademagic]

I wouldn't call myself an 'experienced' developer, but I do find LLMs useful for once-off things, where I can't justify the effort to research and implement my own solution. Two recent examples come to mind:

1. Converting exported data into a suitable import format based on a known schema 2. Creating syntax highlighting rules for language not natively support in a Typst report

Both situations didn't have an existing solution, and while the outputs were not exactly correct, they only needed minor adjustments.

Any other situation, I'd generally prefer to learn how to do the thing, since understanding how to do something can sometimes be as important as the result.