You're on the internet, you can make whatever claims you want. But even with no sources or experimental data, you can always add some rational logic to add weight to your claims.

> They're undeniably useful in software development

> I've fixed countless bugs in a tiny fraction of the time

> I get the most reliable results

> This works extremely well and reliably in producing high quality results.

If there's one common thing in comments that seems to be astroturfing for LLM usage, it's that they use lots of superlative adjectives in just one paragraphs.

You can chose to see it as astroturfing, or see it as people actually thinking the superlatives are appropriate.

To be honest, it makes no difference in my life if you believe or not what I'm saying. And from my perspective, it's just a bit astounding to read people's takes that are authoritatively claiming that LLMs are not useful for software development. It's like telling me over the phone that restaurant X doesn't have a pasta dish, while I'm sitting at restaurant X eating a pasta dish. It's just weird, but I understand that maybe you haven't gone to the resto in a while, or didn't see the menu item, or maybe you just have something against this restaurant for some weird reason.