> Now, someone who regularly works with MIDI files - heck, someone who regularly works with binary files - could probably do it in a few hours, but this entire process took minutes.

In my experience, I think this is the key area it exceeds but this isn’t all that common. Hard to imagine 10x productivity boost unless you’re a jack of all trades master of none.

In my experience it’s really useful when you need to do something in a domain you aren’t super familiar with (that you don’t need to become proficient in). But when it comes to the everyday stuff that is my comfort zone I don’t need it. I’m years past looking up syntax or standard library functions for the languages I work in regularly. Every time I’ve tried to use it for a remotely complex algorithm I’ve found it to be much faster to implement by hand then try to debug whatever it got wrong. But for makefiles and gh actions — it’s a true godsend and those things can be major time sinks.

I’m also a developer who really likes to know what my code is doing. If I can’t code something myself I don’t feel comfortable deploying it. But I’ve found this is less universal of a sentiment than I would have imagined in the past year.