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Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

I wonder if I'm an outlier in this? Are most ChatGPT users leaning on it more for writing on their behalf? Aside from writing code and being a thesaurus I see it mainly as a curiosity engine - a tool for helping explore a weird, blurry, occasionally misleading but absolutely vast pool of knowledge

I can’t use ChatGPT to write because it doesn’t know what the fuzzy, half-formed ideas in my head are that I’m trying to crystallise into words. Until we hook LLMs up to telepathy machines it’s not much use. But it’s a good rubber duck to talk to about those ideas as a preliminary step.

I am convinced one of the most powerful workflows is to use a transcription model like Whisper over spoken word (from completely raw to very draft) and feed that in as context for LLMs for further exploration.