I’ve found that the reduction in overhead frees up more conceptual levels of thinking, how it all fits together instead of how it all is
The biggest benefit GPT-4 gives for coding tasks is simply reducing cognitive overhead IMO. It removes instances of “ugh I know how to do this but it’s going to take a bit of thought and 20 lines of code.” Instead I just ask GPT-4 and it gets me 95% of the way there.