I usually don't believe in the whole "[modern tech] makes you dumb" thing, but last night I wasted half an hour because GitHub copilot misunderstood me and generated some buggy code that I couldn't spot at first glance. I probably could have saved a lot of time and trouble if I wrote everything myself.
I wanted to blame it to Copilot, but I was using Copilot in the first place because I don't have enough faith in my own skills and put some dumb LLM above me. I can confidently say that "I could have saved a lot of time and trouble if I wrote everything myself" in this specific instance, but not in general.
This made me wonder what if I'm a better programmer with more faith in my skills, where I definitively know that I'm fast enough, that overrelying on an LLM will only slow me down. Maybe I'll get there someday.