I used to hand-write a lot of the scripts we used to automate processes (mostly Google Apps Scripts and Python). It was very helpful to us but slow going and sometimes frustrating.

In the past, I was limited by my programming knowledge and ability. Now I am limited by my knowledge of our business and ability to explain what I want to happen.

With LLMs, I can generally 1-shot most things I want to automate, including things that would've taken me days to figure out in the past. I generally just say that I'll spend 30 minutes on something and more often than not, it's either done or very close at the end of that time.