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I’ve been having trouble deciding what to delegate to LLMs and what to do myself.

For example, recently I’ve been reading the Bash manual trying to learn how to use it more effectively, but occasionally I’ll ask ChatGPT to generate the script for me and it usually works fine. So I start to think maybe my time is better spent learning something else.

Or when I’m developing a new component in react, often times I’ll ask ChatGPT to generate and then i’ll spend so much time tweaking or fixing the generated code, unsure if the time is better spent writing it from scratch.

Do you suffer from the same analysis paralysis? How do you decide what’s worth learning and what should just be punted to LLMs?

What is your experience like? Any lessons or best practices you’ve discovered.