Two years in. Who uses AI assists, Open AI/Grok/Claude/DeepSeek/Gemini etc. ?

[El Presidente]

Two years in. Who uses AI assists, Open AI/Grok/Claude/DeepSeek/Gemini etc ?

Hard to believe it has only been just over 2 years since Open AI launched. 

Good thread on FOH when it first launched and the buy in was mixed. Two years on? What has been your experience? Certainly the field of AI's to use has widened

Personal experience, I use ChatGTP4 daily. From preparing documents to revising proposals it has become a mainstay. I would estimate it saves me 8-12 hours a week (= productivity). I have found it to be a genuine personal assistant. Still needs to be checked but generally 90% there. 

What has been your real world experience? 

[mikejh]

I use Open AI a little for work to write copy. I use it a lot personally for random questions, music recommendations, and general amusement. It has decent cigar recommendations.

[morphling]

In an engineering field, I use it to do basic set up of a lot of code and make the actual changes for my relevant application. Basically it's become my grunt worker (re: intern 😆). 

[David8406]

I’m in software development. I’m sure it’s different for every person, but I would guess it makes you 50% more efficient when you are actually writing code. For an everyday software developer that’s probably only 50% of your time. But still, a massive savings. So let’s say 12 hours a week and you end up with higher quality code.

[sudoslash]

It's been transformative at work and greatly empowers software development as David said — I don't really work on Fridays anymore. At home, I use OpenAI's Deep Research for lots of things, like conjuring complex business structures to expense cigars or crawling FoH to summarize reviews on a particular stick I'm looking to try. I've been toying with Cursor for personal coding projects and have been really impressed. I think Google's newest Gemini is the best overall model right now, but I'm loving the competition amongst the frontier models, the future will be exciting!

[griller]

I love Perplexity as a search engine & use it regularly instead of Google. Two other LLMs that have found their way into my use weekly are ChatGPT and the new Gemini. I use them for brainstorming sales management & marketing challenges related to my industry. I can't really put a figure on the # of hours weekly I'm gaining in productivity, but I see that this tech is now a part of business today and will be continuing to evolve. Best to get in the game now, learn as much as you can, and try to find the value add that can give you a leg up in the future.

[BrightonCorgi]

My AI use primarily is for prompts like I am using a search engine. Nothing fancy.

[chasy]

I use ChatGPT as if it is my co-founder or analyst. I literally talk to it like we work together. Just this week I wasn't feeling great, so I said "Good morning, not feeling great today. Pretty lethargic. What should I prioritize today given I'm drained?" My GPT responded with "here are the 4-5 things that would be great to make some progress on. Maybe 15 - 20 minutes each, and we won't fall behind on x, y, z. Also, you have a meeting tomorrow with your attorney and we need to make a decision on x, y, z. So we should quickly prep on that..." The list goes on, but I've found it to be an incredible resource. Truly amazed.

[LaoFan]

I use daily:

- ChatGPT 

- MidJourney

- Fireflies 

- Replit

I figure out what to use them for / how to use them for myself and then build out SOPs that I push company wide. Always looking for new platforms. The key now is to get into AI agents. Starting to be able to perform multiple-step tasks rather than single prompts.

[mikejh]

6 hours ago, chasy said:

I use ChatGPT as if it is my co-founder or analyst. I literally talk to it like we work together. Just this week I wasn't feeling great, so I said "Good morning, not feeling great today. Pretty lethargic. What should I prioritize today given I'm drained?" My GPT responded with "here are the 4-5 things that would be great to make some progress on. Maybe 15 - 20 minutes each, and we won't fall behind on x, y, z. Also, you have a meeting tomorrow with your attorney and we need to make a decision on x, y, z. So we should quickly prep on that..." The list goes on, but I've found it to be an incredible resource. Truly amazed.

I've noticed chat gpt has gotten much more conversational in the past 6 months or so, it often asks follow up questions to keep the conversation going and stores facts about our previous chats to reference later. I was trying to see how far it would go and I asked it if I should start a specific exercise routine. It was really hesitant to give me any specific life advice, but I kept asking until it finally said yes.

[El Presidente]

6 hours ago, chasy said:

I use ChatGPT as if it is my co-founder or analyst. I literally talk to it like we work together. Just this week I wasn't feeling great, so I said "Good morning, not feeling great today. Pretty lethargic. What should I prioritize today given I'm drained?" My GPT responded with "here are the 4-5 things that would be great to make some progress on. Maybe 15 - 20 minutes each, and we won't fall behind on x, y, z. Also, you have a meeting tomorrow with your attorney and we need to make a decision on x, y, z. So we should quickly prep on that..." The list goes on, but I've found it to be an incredible resource. Truly amazed.

Good headsup. 

[ViscountDick]

I work in tech sales and use ChatGPT4 everyday to speed up manual research tasks, especially useful for cutting down time spent on RFPs and RFIs.

[garifo]

I work in Software Quality Assurance and manage a team of QA Engineers. We’ve incorporated AI into our process, which has reduced our test case documentation time by 60%. Additionally, we leverage AI tools and extensions like Codeium to speed up the writing of automation scripts within our frameworks which has significantly improved efficiency.

[RedLantern]

As a teacher I use it quite a bit to produce many examples or practice work for students. In my neck of the woods the educational authorities have essentially done away with the notion that students need to sit an practice skills to master them, so there is nothing in the published curriculum like worksheets that are necessary to master a lot of skills. For example, when I'm attempting to "review" what a complete sentence is vs a run-on or a sentence fragment, it's helpful to have a lot of examples to work through to get the hang of it. I could write a ton myself, but it would take time. Easier and just as good to ask the AI to create 40 examples and I keep the best 20. It's also a pretty good time saver for creating multiple choice assessments (also done away with by the authorities) as creating "wrong" answers is also pretty time consuming and easily farmed out to the AI. 

I sometimes will use it to write emails to parents. For example, when I need to let a parent know their kid is not participating in class, AI will do a good job of that, and I like that I can give it direction to have a friendly or deferential tone. I often find that it takes a lot of effort on my part to take the appropriate tone if I write it myself when I'm annoyed/stressed or busy trying to teach. Similar use to have the AI reduce the reading level of the email if I know the family are not native english speakers.

I also will use it to reduce the reading level of supplemental texts that I give to the class, if the text is going to be too difficult for most students to understand.

I'm sure there are a lot of ways I could be using it more and more productivley in my work, but I'm a slow adopter.

[svivo]

I use it most days. Would be great to find out how to integrate it more as a personal assistant and keep me organized - any suggestions?

Slowly building some task specific agents but only scratching the surface - very much looking forward to the day when I can offload most of my admin work to my team of "helpers".

I posted on Sunday about NotebookLM which is free with google. The simplicity of being able to drop a bunch of sources into it and have it automating generate a short podcast on the inputs is a massive time saver. (post is here). Want to learn about a new topic - drop in some research papers, click generate and 5 minutes later you've got a pretty engaging podcast. It also has interactive mode which allows you to directly ask the hosts questions.