> I don't think that these specific tools are here to stay.

I agree, we're still in an experimental phase so these tools are definitely not in their final form, I meant more that the LLM core of the tool is here to stay, and familiarizing yourself with how to use LLMs to solve every day problems is a good time investment.

I've experimented mostly with the raw chat interfaces for programming, circuit design, querying documentation, and troubleshooting OS issues rather than spending time googling, and they've proven incredibly valuable even with the basic chat interface. I've also hit many of the issues/limitations other people have reported, sometimes wasting some time going down a rabbit hole, and sometimes I was convinced that the LLM was wrong in diagnosing some issue, but it turned out to be correct in the end.

Despite the difficulties, it remains the case that I wouldn't have started or finished some projects without them.