I’ve been weaving ChatGPT into most of my workflows for a lot of things.

by ChatGPT 4o

Shopping

Comparing different kinds of keyboard switches. I am able to compare any pair of keyboard switches quite well and make a good decision. For example, I wanted to understand how Holy Panda Switches really differed from a general class of switch. I told it to research via Bing.

Finance

Generating sensible accounting journal entries for specific situations, and even going as far as citing the specific accounting standard to be used. I think generally, something that involves applying standards to something where they aren’t defined rulesets.

Investing

I was trying to evaluate a perpetual bond from HSBC, and I had concerns about the credit’s seniority on the stack. It was able to explain this to me and assure me that it would not go the way of Credit Suisse’s bonds by linking me to direct news sources from the UK regulator.

Technology

Explaining git commands (or really generally any inscrutable but ubiquitous piece of technology)

Reading

Summarising any document especially very dense PDF documents: (a) non-disclosure agreements, EULAs. You can ask ChatGPT to take the stance of someone who is looking out for you and highlight any provisions that you need to then take care of.

Coding

I wanted to translate numeric IDs into natural lanuage IDs and the dataset is essentially a JSON file. It needed to also replace self-referencing parent IDs in the dataset to the new natural language IDs. It did this in one step with little modification needed on my part.

Remembering old games

I was trying to find games to play on Delta, and I couldn’t remember the name of Advance Wars, a strategy game I really enjoyed. It got to the answer on the first try .