My favorite use case for LLMs in long term software production (they're pretty great at one off stuff since I don't need to maintain) is as an advanced boiler p

My favorite use case for LLMs in long term software production (they're pretty great at one off stuff since I don't need to maintain) is as an advanced boiler plate generator. Stuff that can't just be abstracted to a function or class but also require no real thought. Tests are often (depending on what they're testing) in this realm. I was resistant at first, but I love it. It's reduced the parts of my job that I dislike doing because of how monotonous they are and replaced them with a new fun thing to do - optimizing prompts that get it done for me much faster. Writing the prompt and reviewing the code is _so_ much faster on tedious simple stuff and it leaves the interesting, though provoking parts of my work for me to do.