It’s a fantastic performance booster for a lot of mundane tasks like writing and revising design docs, tests, debugging (using it like a super smart and active rubber duck), and system design discussions.

I also use it as a final check on all my manually written code before sending it for code review.

With all that said, I have this weird feeling that my ability to quickly understand and write code is no longer noticeable, nor necessary.

Everyone now ships tons of code and even if I do the same without any LLM, the default perception will be that it has been generated.

I am not depressed about it yet, but it will surely take a while to embrace the new reality in its entirety