I also see LLMs primarily as a better search engine. Stack overflow gave us code snippets and was a huge step forward. Now we can find those snippets and explan

I also see LLMs primarily as a better search engine. Stack overflow gave us code snippets and was a huge step forward. Now we can find those snippets and explanations much faster. The secondary use is as a duck to bounce ideas off. A duck that is not as smart as a human but always available. And I can ask stupid questions to check my understanding. The final use is for code generation. If I’m super tired it can do trivial coding for me. Or if it’s boilerplate, which is very little code for me. Generally it doesn’t help a great deal within the IDE, and I’m not completely sure it’s a net win there yet.