Yeah I have to use it at work, so I use it to suggest improvements, explain why this or that wouldn't work, or when I'm tired of googling an error message that leads me nowhere.

It's hit or miss, sometimes it spares me hours of work, sometimes it just loops over dumb stuff.

It's an okay tool, it's interesting to know and understand, but I'm not too worried about it replacing me just yet.

I don't think that's unique to LLMs though. Traditional learning material is very often like that too, and I actually find it worse because you can't ask it questions.

This can easily be resolved with a more direct default prompt. But I actually prefer the verbosity of the standard system prompts. It allows for much better exploration and learning opportunities.

You can tell it to be concise or terse.