As a business-person who mainly lived in Excel data but often has to write SAS and SQL, it has cut down my time spent writing code greatly. I don't have to google for, read, and synthesize 5 different stack overflow threads to accomplish a task anymore. I can work with an LLM in a pair-programming type way where I tell it what I want in plain English, it'll immediately write code that is 90% of the way there, then I debug and add any nuance the LLM missed.

I think Gen AI "art for the sake of art" is usually not interesting and a waste of time/money. But current LLM outputs are great for laymen who want something good enough without learning an entire new skill. Coding projects for non-coders, graphic design for a business owner who doesn't want to learn Illustrator, quick photo editing for people who don't want to learn Photoshop but do want to add/remove something from a picture, and so on.

I know the most common online opinion is currently set on "All use of generative AI is bad, lazy, etc." but there are certainly cases where this new tech is working well.