I've been using the Pulumi AI https://www.pulumi.com/ai/ and whilst it is quite handy it does seem to make up stuff, i.e. produce code that is more wishful thinking than actually viable. The other day I asked it about base64 encoding of userData in an aws-native launchTemplate and it happily told me that I didn't need to base64 encode it, but on reading the docs I couldn't find a launchTemplate function in the aws-native provider, and the one in the aws provider needs the userData to be base64 encoded. Today I asked it how to add an instance role to a launch template, and it correctly told me I need to add an instance profile to the template, but the code it provided

// Create the launch template that uses the instance profile and IAM role
const launchTemplate = new aws.ec2.LaunchTemplate("launchTemplate", {
    imageId: "ami-0c94855ba95b798c7", // Replace with the desired AMI ID
    instanceType: "t2.micro", // Change to desired instance type
    instanceProfileName: instanceProfile.name,
    // Additional launch template settings can be added here, such as security groups
});

uses instanceProfileName, which the compiler complained about and the docs say doesn't exist. There is iamInstanceProfile which takes an arn, so I was able to make it work. I'm not complaining, I do find the AI to be useful, but it is worth noting that its code needs checking.

This is unfortunately just how ChatGPT behaves currently; it can be confidently incorrect. Take everything it says with a grain of salt.

a confident liar. maybe ChatGPT should run for office