> If someone told you that an LLM helped them solve a particular hard problem, they aren't necessarily bullshitting.

Yes, they clearly are not bullshitting. They would be bullshitting if they would tell me that the LLM "thinks" while helping them.

Autocompletion and inline documentation was a godsend at their time. It solved the particular hard and heavy problem of kilos of manuals. It was a technical solution to a problem just like LLMs.