I watched people ask LLMs for linting/refactoring help, burning easily 5 minutes for something that could be completed deterministically, locally, in ms using any modern editor.

Quite frankly it was embrassing. I lost trust in that persons ability to solve problems.

Someone with better knowledge could work 100x faster using 100x fewer resources. But you did it the slow expensive way so you didn't have to think? Odd flex.