How do you use AI in your day-to-day life?

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Until recently, I was mainly using ChatGPT and Claude to summarize and proofread documents, memos, and SOPs.

Over the past week, I've been using AI to redesign the website and app for Draftly.so.

I stopped coding a few years ago, so I was impressed with the results—something that would have taken me weeks was done in just a few hours.

One key takeaway for me is that you should treat AI like a child: give it smaller tasks, and when it makes mistakes (especially if you already know the solution), fix them yourself.

I'd love to hear how you use AI in your daily life!

Cat Stickler · Accepted Answer

SkedPal: AI calendar that's way more powerful than people realize. I create time zones and time budgets for everything in my life (I.e. creative client work deliverables, admin client work, pitching, game dev, social time, cleaning, sleep, etc.), so when I create my master to-do list and use the proper categories, SkedPal automatically structures my day in a way that forces me to honor my boundaries and capacity. It also tells me when I'm being delusional and need to scale back before I burn out or burn bridges.

Goblin Tools (goblintools.ai): I have my SOPs for my work because otherwise I'd go insane, but for life stuff, it can be a bit much to break down huge projects or goals, so Goblin Tools breaks down these huge projects into manageable steps so you can at least start.

Ironically, as a freelance writer (copy, content, fiction, games) and editor, I don't use generative AI in my work. Even when I prompt it really well (I got obsessed with prompting before), it still gives pretty lackluster results and I have to go in and clean it up myself. It's much easier to just do the whole writing and editing process myself since blank pages don't scare me and I don't get stuck with writer's block. (Only because I know the only thing between me and a paid invoice is getting words on the page lol)

Also with SEO, I've seen it just be outright wrong before. Laughably wrong.

I don't know coding well enough to use generative AI and know if it's wrong, so I just don't use it for that either (in my game dev & website work). I'd much rather learn the principles behind whatever I need to do to understand it for myself, so I can be flexible in my approach.

I definitely don't know much about AI besides generative AI, so I'm hoping to learn more about how other AI works :)

Antoine Le Baux · Answer

Speech-to-text on my phone to write messages. Very fast and 0 spelling issues

Danny Cisco · Answer

my latest trick: ask Claude to build an interactive visualisation tool

here is one that helped me visualise how the binary format FP4 works:
https://claude.site/artifacts/d4ef7356-d066-42cc-b6b2-54d3f42e1fbd

Go to Homepage	`g` `h`
Go to Done Todos	`g` `d`
Compose a New Todo	`n`
Go to Search	`/`
Show this dialog	`?`

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