Retired after 4 decades of programming for a living… To that end I am now a "hobbyist" programmer and not affiliated with a Corporation™ when I "ship" code. Perhaps I would feel differently if I still were.

As a hobbyist though, I find that LLMs are allowing me to tackle projects that I would not have tackled at all but for the existence of the LLM.

It's an important point to make (to me).

Many of these projects are rather tedious. (Other coders though might enjoy what this one-man calls "tedious".) I have found that liberating.