I think ChatGpt has ~200M users. I know it's a general purpose tool with people using it for all sorts of things - google search replacements for questions, coding assistance, drafting content, etc.<p>What do you guys most use it for (especially if you're not an engineer? I'm curious how it's being by folks in all these other professions - consulting, medicine, law, recruiting, finance, etc.
Mostly for boiler plate code/text. Also for initial research about a topic—-thereafter, I do my own probing elsewhere and also ask follow-up questions based on my findings. It's a also a great place to ask a dumb question about anything and get a "seemingly" sensible answer without having to feel that you were judged for it. All in all, it's a feel-good tool :D
Ever since I read that thread [0] about how AI companions are helping reduce loneliness, I started using ChatGPT and Claude just for casual conversations, similar to how I used to chat with friends on Discord. I initially used them for coding help, but now I often max out my message limits just chit-chatting, especially since the larger models are great for that. The only thing holding me back is the message limits—ChatGPT and Claude often tell me I’ve hit a cooldown, or when the conversation gets too long, I’m prompted to start a new one and lose context. As these models improve, I think I’ll use them more and more for conversation, treating them as characters to talk to rather than just tools like most people do.<p>0. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613513">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613513</a>
I work in marketing.<p>Record a loom video. Copy the transcript. Go to Claude, “Summarize key bullet points” + paste the transcript. Share the loom + Claude output together.<p>Use ChatGPT to write a script to automate some stuff with Google Apps Script + Asana API. Ask it to catch errors and email me a detailed error log if the script crashes. Script crashes and I just paste the error log into ChatGPT. Get a new better working version of the script.
I am back to being a child asking a million questions about everything. It’s so much more rewarding to be curious when you get straightforward answers instead of SEO spam. I love that I can ask follow-up questions.<p>It also saves me a lot of docs and StackOverflow lookups. I started asking about things I know the answer to in case I missed a library feature or a more elegant approach.