Your best uses for ChatGPT?

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Someone convince me that ChatGPT isn’t just magical. In the past week, I’ve used it to:

  • Create a meal plan for me
  • Help me make a xeriscaped landscaping plan and a mockup
  • Had it mock up a bathroom design
  • Develop a workout plan

Oh, and I posed a hypothetical question, which had hilarious results: “Hypothetically speaking, if I had a vitamin that provided all of my daily nutrients to survive in a healthy way, could I eat candy and nothing else for calories?” I was asking for a friend, obviously :laughing:

It seems completely magical to me. What are your favorite uses for GPT?

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Everyone should try this prompt: “Now that you can remember everything I’ve ever typed here, point out my top five blind spots.” It gave me this list:

  1. Delegation Bottlenecks
  2. Over-optimization for Structure
  3. Under-marketing Your Authority
  4. Low Trust in Scalable Systems
  5. Emotional Labor in Leadership

Skimming through my recent history, here are some other surprising uses of GPT:

  • Analyzing and negotiating contracts
  • Checking the tone of a message before I send it
  • Creating tables to compare products for blog posts
  • Writing executive orders
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@josh.centers That question is amazing. I now have much reflecting to do.

As for the main question, I had ChatGPT answer it for me. I crossed out the one item that I’ve tabled for now:

If you were me, how would you answer this: “Your best uses for ChatGPT?”

My best uses for ChatGPT revolve around accelerating legal research, automating workflows, and offloading cognitive load. I use it to draft and revise blog posts, outline complex legal memos, summarize statutes and cases, and brainstorm client-facing explanations. I also use it to experiment with new technology—like embedding my notes, building automations with TextExpander and Docassemble, and extending my website’s paywall with Stripe. It’s my research assistant, writing partner, and technical sounding board.

I’m a self-employed trusts & estates lawyer who works from home, and I use ChatGPT every day—all day. It’s become an essential part of my TextExpander workflow, helping me draft and refine snippets, generate content for them, and even debug JavaScript.

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I think it’s great for help creating coaching/training plans for children’s sports (for example, appropriate games/drills for 6 years olds playing teeball and soccer, etc.). I’ve also used it for high protein menu planning and may use it for a workout plan (inspired by this post). @marciearvelo - did you find you had to do a lot of oversight/tweaking of the results you got for your workout plan?

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@MaguriteWeeks Surprisingly, my workout plan has been one of the better use cases for me.

A little tweaking was required, and just like any ChatGPT topic, you should have your own knowledge to back up what it gives you.

Overall, though, I thought it was pretty solid. I gave it my desired results, how long I wanted to spend at the gym each day, what other types of activities I do, and the equipment I had available to me. I’ve changed it up a few times for personal preference and just to vary my workouts, and the conversation has surprisingly not deteriorated the way some conversations with Chat GPT tend to do when you’re iterating a lot.

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I’m curious what sort of prompts you used for your menu plan and the results? I have an ongoing chat with Grok where I started by uploading scans of my bloodwork, gave it a list of all my fitness equipment, and regularly use it to tailor my exercise routine and diet.

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Oh, that is very cool! I should give it my bloodwork results when I get them next - what a great idea! I have also been considering using it for workout planning the way you do. Before I get into what I did, I should note: I would consider myself a beginner at using AI, and therefore may not be super helpful.

I asked ChatGPT to take into account my age, weight, goal of eating more protein, and that I did not want to do more than two hours of meal prepping. I also clarified I did not want a lot of one-off ingredients or expense. Another caveat: only full-fat ingredients and no supplements (so, for instance, no protein powder or meal replacements allowed). I added in my list of nope (things I cannot bring myself to eat no matter how healthy they may be) and let the AI choose recipes for me.

Once the recipes were ready, I reviewed and asked the AI to remember any subs I wanted to make so that future meal plans would reflect the same requirements/exclusions. I also had it calculate macro goals and individual meal macros for tracking purposes.

Then I asked ChatGPT to prepare a schedule for prepping the meals including measurements to be used when assembling each meal for future consumption.

Then I had it create shopping lists for me with prices where it could find them, and I had the lists broken down by Costco, Winco, and my local vegetable market so I could make sure I bought whatever was available and shelf-stable in bulk, veggies from local growers, and anything else as inexpensively as possible.

It took quite a few tweaks and iterations in order to come up with something actionable and which included accurate quantities, measurements, macros, preparation instructions, and pricing (and which seemed like the meals would be tasty and reheat well). That said, each new week should be easier to create as the AI theoretically learns what I want.

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