Three things I've noticed as a dev whose field involves a lot of niche software development.

1. LLMs seem to benefit 'hacker-type' programmers from my experience. People who tend to approach coding problems in a very "kick the TV from different angles and see if it works" strategy.

2. There seems to be two overgeneralized types of devs in the market right now: Devs who make niche software and devs who make web apps, data pipelines, and other standard industry tools. LLMs are much better at helping with the established tool development at the moment.

3. LLMs are absolute savants at making clean-ish looking surface level tech demos in ~5 minutes, they are masters of selling "themselves" to executives. Moving a demo to a production stack? Eh, results may vary to say the least.

I use LLMs extensively when they make sense for me.

One fascinating thing for me is how different everyone's experience with LLMs is. Obviously there's a lot of noise out there. With AI haters and AI tech bros kind of muddying the waters with extremist takes.