No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

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.

I once had normal ChatGPT telling me to install some "custom resources" for Chef InSpec from a GitHub repository and documentation website that didn't exist. I prompted it, it figured out key bits of information I said to it, and used the models it has to produce something intelligible based on what it knows about other resources following that pattern.

It's a great tool in that it can fill gaps in reference documentation and examples, but there is no interpreter involved in running/analyzing/testing the solutions.

a confident liar. maybe ChatGPT should run for office