I feel very much the same way about debugging: it is through the process of repeatedly being slightly wrong that I come to actually understand what is happening.

Sometimes an LLM can shortcut me through a bunch of those misunderstandings. It feels like an easy win.

But ultimately, lacking context for how I got to that point in the debugging litany always slows me down more than the time it saved me. I frequently have to go backwards to uncover some earlier insight the LLM glossed over, in order to "unlock" a later problem in the litany.

If the problem is simple enough the LLM can actually directly tell you the answer, it's great. But using it as a debugging "coach" or "assistant" is actively worse than nothing for me.