I'm in a similar situation. I'm a scientist who needs to do a fair amount of coding (mostly scripting) to do my research analyses. I can do way more in the same or less time than before. I can plug into ChatGPT what I need and with some back and forth, end up with the code to do it. Sometimes it takes many iterations and days to get it, other times it's almost exactly what I need the first output.Exactly. This is why I'm benefitting. I can do those things well enough for my projects that I don't need to hire anyone to write the laborious parts of the code. I'm spending far more time doing design and architecture now than I ever did coding, to an enormous degree. The productivity gain blows my mind every time I stop and think about it.
A benefit is I don't need to know all the languages or have someone code for me. I'm very comfortable with bash. I am decently comfortable with R and have some familiarity with Python. I have minimal Matlab knowledge. Now I can use any of those languages to do what I need to do without really knowing the languages. Some people might be concerned about that but I know what to ask and what the output should be. It's freeing of so much time to let the LLM produce and document much of the code. It will even take an approach I would not have thought of.
I know some people don't trust the output (I don't either until I verify it) and don't like AI -- I get that and understand that -- but I have a specific use for them, at which they excel. These tools are one of the greatest things to happen in my career. They free me up to do much more science. I can have more elegant analyses than I and a team of people could create in a reasonable time.