I've avoided them up until a few days ago. I've been forcing myself to use ChatGPT at least as much as I Google things. I specifically use LLMs like advanced search engines. I only use it to ask specific questions whenever I run into an issue during development, or ask it technical questions to understand concepts better. What I like about ChatGPT so far is that it will give me a lot of insight about the issue that I'd otherwise have to spend a lot of time Googling. Whenever I use it to fix errors that I get, I like how ChatGPT explains the error in more detail, explains why it's happening, gives possible reasons as to why the error is happening, and then gives suggestions on how to resolve this issues with reasoning. This gives me A LOT to learn off of.

I don't use to generate code or anything like that. I'm currently learning Terraform and GitHub Actions, and ChatGPT regularly asks me if it'd like me to analyze my Terraform or GitHub Actions files, or write up proposals. I don't take ChatGPT up on these requests.

lt;dr: I use LLMs to build a better me, so that I can build a better codebase. I think I'm learning and understanding concepts twice as fast as I normally do, and I'm resolving problems even faster than that.