Understanding how to use these tools properly does not take very long. If you've never used them, spending an afternoon with each on real problems will probably change how you think.

If you don't already know which tool to use / how to diagnose the problem, you'll instead of banging your head against the wall, you'll think - "how do i figure out this thing - what is the right tool for this job"? and then you'll probably find it, and use it, because people are awesome and build incredibly useful free / open source software.

"try stuff until it works" is so common, and the experience needed to understand how to go about solving the problem is within reach.

Like especially with llms, "what's the right tool to use to solve problem x i'm having? this is what's going on. i'm on linux/macos, using python" or w/e