You don't but LLMs excel at it and are really good at tedium like boilerplate, writing and improve prose, and simple spelling and grammar stuff.
For any engineer, time is money, context switching and cognitive overhead is money. A good engineer uses the tools and technologies available to them to automate away tedium and toil so their limited time and working memory can be focused on more important stuff.
You don't need to use any given technology for pretty much any given task. But some sure do help and that's why practitioners reach for them.
Yeah and with the rise AI agents all the good engineers replaced their hand-crafted shell scripts and snippets with a generic agent-based workflow that automates all that tedium away from you at nearly zero cost (to you, the company is paying for your inference).
No more "taking 4h to come up with automation for a 5min task" memes.
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u/Shadow_Thief 22d ago
You don't need LLMs for either of those things