The normal refactorings are still there AFAICT.

Yeah I'm in the holding it wrong camp too. I really want LLMs to work, but every time I spend effort trying to get it to do something I end up with subtle errors or a conclusion that isn't actually correct despite looking correct.

Most people tell me I'm just not that good at prompting, which is probably true. But if I'm learning how to prompt, that's basically coding with more steps. At that point it's faster for me to write the code directly.

The one area where it actually has been successful is (unsurprisingly) translating code from one language to another. That's been a great help.

I do the designing, then I write a comment explaining what happens, and the LLM then adds a few lines of code. Write another comment, etc.

I get very similar code to what I would normally write but much faster and with comments.

I agree there can be very legitimate reasons for personally not wanting to use AI. At the same time, I'm not sure I find either of those questions to be related to particularly convincing reasons.

Teaching a program how to do your job has been part of the hacker mindset for many decades now, I don't think there is anything new to be said as to why. Anyone here reading this on the internet has long since decided they are fine preferring technical automations over preserving traditional ways of completing work.

LLMs don't inherently imply anything about privacy handling, the service you select does (if you aren't just opting to self host in the first place). On the hosted service side there's anything from "free and sucks up everything" to "business data governance contracts about what data can be used how".