How much longer would OP have needed to find the same vulnerability without LLM help? Then multiply that by the energy used to produce 2000kcal/day of food as well as the electricity for running their computer.
Usually LLMs come out far ahead in those types of calculations. Compared to humans they are quite energy efficient
Those types of calculation are extremely disingenuous.
What exactly is disingenuous about it?
It reduces the value of a human life to the incremental rate at which they produce some concrete product. It is absurd.
Or, it elevates the tasks artificial intelligence produces to the actual difficulty of them - the human effort.
You're not thinking this through. Your human life (with its associated 2000 Cal/day) does so much more than find bugs in obscure codebases. Or at least, one would hope.