Wow more issues that are solved by, you know, just doing engineering yourself. I have yet to see actual improvement to workflows by using agents.
“We write less code, but it costs more and nothing else of note has changed”
It really depends on what you are using them for, I've found. Large scale projects? LLMs would make it take longer. I can not fathom using them for a large scale project at my job. It would take ages to secure and debug. Small scripts to do small tasks? They can generate and write these much this faster than I can, and do it just fine. Making a bunch of API calls, and organizing data for me is where I've found that I enjoy using Local LLMs. It cut my work down by over half when used like this.