I'd have to be paid probably at least $200/mo to stop using LLMs, they are a massive productivity boost for new projects and can replace google for simple things. As an example of replacing google (since I was writing C++ today and I haven't used it in ages):
me: is there an issue with passing "hello" to std::string
claude: Passing "hello" to a function expecting std::string is actually not an issue. C++ allows implicit conversion from string literals (like "hello") to std::string objects. This conversion is possible because std::string has a constructor that accepts a const char*, which is the type of string literals in C++.
If I type this question into google, I get this:
> some_function(std::string{"hello, world"}); is completely safe, as long as the function doesn't preserve the string_view for later use. The temporary std::string is destroyed at the end of this full-expression (roughly speaking, at this ; ), so it's destroyed after the function returns.
which doesn't really answer my question
As an example of simple project: I wanted to make an app with swiftUI, and I was able to just describe it to claude and have it give me the basic outlines of the app, and then improve it by iteratively asking claude for changes. Since I try to understand the output, this lead to me learning Swift and SwiftUI very quickly while also having a functional app within a few minutes.