[outworlder]

> Which makes me think there is some hype involved.

There's _a lot_ of hype.

It's a good tool if you forget about any "intelligence" and just think of it as a tool. We don't expect search engines to be 'intelligent', we expect them to return results we are interested in, in an efficient manner.

In the case of this and similar tools, it is a text generator. It will generate _something_ based on your input. In many cases, it will make up stuff because it has to generate something. Note how it will not ask follow-up questions to 'understand' you (because it doesn't understand anything). You have to apply judgment and ask the follow up questions yourself.

One thing I found these tools to be useful is to mitigate the "blinking cursor on an empty document" paralysis. I just asked the "Pulumi AI" to generate some code that, while not really correct to my needs, is a good starting point for modification.

If you ask it to generate something from you, other than just a pre-made response that you could google, then it's more useful.

[robertfall]

GPT 4 is a massive improvement in this regard.

Copilot specifically asked me to provide the capacitance value for the capacitor closest to the comment pin in response to my question about optimal resistance for a resistor. Once I provided the value (by setting it in the tool, not by typing it in the chat) and asked it to try again it thanked me for the new info and gave back a good resistance value and how it arrived at it.