As usual it depends. When it does well it's because it can do well. When it does poorly it's because you're prompting it wrong.

hammers are both a great tool and a deadly weapon at once

A million times better than any human teacher I’ve ever had, for sure.

Now I’m certain that there exist those mythical human instructors who can do better, but that’s not worth much if 99.99% of people don’t have access to them. Just like a good human physician who takes their time with the patient is better than an LLM, but that’s not worth much either given that this doesn’t match most people’s experience with their own physicians.

They can be incredible. One on one teaching with an infinitely patient teacher who can generate interactive problems on the fly, for dollars a month? Wild. A year of paid ChatGPT would pay for about 9 hours of cheap tutoring here.