I struggle with this a lot myself as a web developer because I frankly hate LLMs having sucked the soul out of my work.

But on the other hand after a few years of using them (at work) I can now hand it a problem, let it go in auto mode then review its code — when I do it’s now at the level that its output looks pretty much exactly how I would’ve written it.

So now I give it rather simple tasks or bug fixes to work on while I focus on writing new features mostly by hand.

I still feel incredibly guilty for using it due to ethical, environmental concerns as well as the feeling that I am becoming less intelligent overall. I can’t imagine being a new junior developer trying to learn new concepts while being pushed to have LLMs solve all the problems.