What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

[rcjordan]

#Tech #LLM

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/

[ergophobe]

"But it's still striking the extent to which writing help is a major use of ChatGPT."

I've reached the point where pretty much nothing important goes out without at least asking an LLM to have a look.

At this point, I think sending formal writing in without having an LLM go over it is similar to turning off spell check in Word in 2010.

I have done some composition experiments and they have ranged from horrible to pretty good, but generally I treat Claude as an editor - submit the piece, get suggestions, evaluate suggestions, accept some and reject others. This is especially helpful for me when writing in French

[rcjordan]

ChatGPT Code (free) is very good at writing userscripts when given a couple of working userscripts as templates and told to make a new script with just 'feature A' from one script and 'feature B' from the 2nd script.

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-k3IqoCe1l-code?locale=en-US