Yes, you essentially have an impossibly well read junior engineer you can task with quick research questions like, "I'm trying to do x using lib y, can you figure that out for me." This is incredibly productive because in the answer is typically all the pieces you need but not always assembled right.
Getting the LLM to pull out well-known names of concepts is for me the skill you can't get anywhere else. You can describe a way to complete a task and ask for what it's called and you'll be heading down arxiv links right away. Like yes the algorithm to find the closest in edit distance and length needle string in a haystack is called Needleman–Wunsch, of course Claude, everyone knows that.
Getting the LLM to pull out well-known names of concepts is for me the skill you can't get anywhere else. You can describe a way to complete a task and ask for what it's called and you'll be heading down arxiv links right away. Like yes the algorithm to find the closest in edit distance and length needle string in a haystack is called Needleman–Wunsch, of course Claude, everyone knows that.