With syntax highlighting and everything. I suppose that's an OF niche you could sell. Subscriptions come with programming support alongside feet pics.

Doesn't that turn you on?

Somewhat. Some of them will outright comply like this one, others need a bit of work. Also you have no control over the model they use and you might be getting really bad code as soon as it’s a bit more specialized than just some very generic solution in a very popular programming language.

Well, they would typically have a system prompt (like an invisible chat message that's sent to the LLM at the start of the conversation), where it would tell the LLM something like "You're a helpful chatbot. Talk cheerfully and use 🩵 all the time."

And in that system prompt, you can also give it instructions to only answer certain questions. But it really is like a chat message, in that it just as well might ignore those instructions when another chat message asks it to.

OP chose the formulation "Before I subscribe to a creator, ..." which might be necessary here to get it to answer, as it might have been told to only help with creator subscriptions, but then the formulation implies that by answering this question, it is helping the user to subscribe. That's called a prompt injection.

If you can find a prompt injection, then yes, you can do this with any chatbot.
Although they might still not be as useful as a dedicated tool, since they likely can't do tool calls, like web searches or running the compiler.

most of LLM-based ones

Well, yes... While the GIL restricts execution to only a single thread, CPython makes threads take turns on it without regard for your code - so a thread can give the lock up to another in the middle of a critical section.

You don't use these in your code? // 💙

That’s cuz she’s fiiiiiine (tuned)