I think that they’re neat, they’re development is fascinating to me, and that they have their utility. But I am sick of executive and marketing types sloppily cramming them into every corner of every service just so they can tell their shareholders that it’s “powered by AI”. So far, I’ll use a page or app dedicated to chatting with the llm, or I’ve also found that GitHub copilot in vscode is pretty nifty sometimes for things like quickly generating docs that I can then just proofread and edit. But in most other applications and websites I don’t use them at all or I’m forced to and the experience is worse. Recently, I’ve been having to work in Microsoft’s power platform a bit for a client (help me). Almost every page in the entire platform has an AI chatbot on the side that’s supposed to do some of the work around you. Don’t use it. It fucks up your shit. Ask it to do something, it will change your flow or whatever you’re working with with the wrong syntax that won’t even compile 9/10 times, with no opportunity to undo, and the remaining 1/10 is logic errors. Ask it questions about the platform, not only will it not know anything, it will literally accuse you of not speaking English.

TL;DR I think they’re neat and useful IF they’re used responsibility and implemented well. Otherwise they are a nuisance excuse to use a buzzword at best or dangerous at worst