Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis. 6 months ago if I wasn’t using the life-changing, newest LLM at the time, I was also doing it wrong and being a luddite.
It creates a never ending treadmill of boy-who-cried-LLM. Why should I believe anything outlined in the article is transformative now when all the same vague claims about productivity increases were being made about the LLMs from 6 months ago which we now all agree are bad?
I don’t really know what would actually unseat this epistemic prior at this point for me.
In six months, I predict the author will again think the LLM products of 6 month ago (now) were actually not very useful and didn’t live up to the hype.
Dude, just try the things out. It's just undeniable in my day-to-day life that I've been able to rely on Sonnet (first 3.7 and now 4.0) and Gemini 2.5 to absolutely crush code. I've done 3 side projects in the past 6 months that I would have been way too lazy to build without these tools. They work. Never going back.
I tried Copilot a few months ago just to give it a shot and so I could discuss it with at least a shred of experience with the tool, and yea, it's a neat feature. I wouldn't call it a gimmick--it deserves a little more than that, but I didn't exactly cream my pants over it like a lot of people seem to be doing. It's kind of convenient, like a smart autocomplete. Will it fundamentally change how I write software? No way. But it's cool.