ChatGPT

Ali Abdaal

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"All right, ChatGPT, I want you to help me out, mate. Basically, I want to create some sort of home security system... So, super basic prompt. I haven't used any prompt engineering. I'm literally just speaking to it as if it's a tutor or a friend w..."

Riley Brown

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"I just said inside just the ChatGPT app, I said, 'Use intelligent UI, make a calendar.' And then it just made a calendar in line... it can just spawn the perfect UI for whatever it is that you're asking in line, which is pretty damn cool."

Liam Ottley

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"Kylon has just released a new feature that allows you to bring your own ChatGPT plan to Kylon to set up your agents on... just like that, we have our ChatGPT plan plugged into Kylon, which is going to save us hundreds if not thousands of dollars a..."

Chris Koerner

uses recommends mentioned Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"Today, you just take pictures of everything, upload it to Claude or ChatGPT and say, 'I'm totally ignorant to this. I know that's a dresser. I know that's a Star Wars thing. That's a Lego set. What of this is interesting or valuable to people? Wha..."

a16z

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"So I had ChatGPT rewrite her dissertation that she wrote 20-something years ago, but everything is now current... She was like, 'This is amazing. What AI is this?' And I'm like, 'It's ChatGPT.'"

Greg Isenberg

uses recommends mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"Day five, run it manually with AI — use Claude or ChatGPT and copy and paste the context, draft the output, ask the human to approve, and you are testing whether the AI helps before you build the software."

Peter Yang

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"I built a single AI prompt that will get either ChatGPT desktop or Claude Desktop or whatever harness you use to walk through all these steps for you."

"On AI and education, I would generally recommend for younger kids, and I did this when my kids were younger: if they have like a homework problem, I'd take a picture of it with ChatGPT and I'd ask ChatGPT to explain to me how to explain to my kids..."

"I have gone now at least 6 months, maybe a year, where I know I've not looked up one thing on Google. Not one... It is either ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini. It's over, friends."

Dan Shipper

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"Even before dots launched, they'd become my main way of interacting with ChatGPT and they're still that way after launch."

Chris Williamson

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"I had this really great interaction with ChatGPT where I sent my genetic data to it and had a conversation with it and said, 'Hey, imagine you know nothing about me — tell me what sort of a person you think I would be just based on my genetic data..."

Anish Acharya

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"ChatGPT Work — it's kind of buried in the UI, but it's really really good. It's one of the best products they've released. It runs in the cloud, it does a good job of caching browser credentials, and the remote feature has the full deep duplex voi..."

"Maybe plug that into ChatGPT or Claude, start playing around, and find your database idea."

Ras Mic

uses recommends mentioned GPT-5.6 Sol2 versions old · newest is GPT-6.1 Sol

"5.6 is a lot more eager, a lot more faster, and token efficient as well. I have a model that's really, really good for a fraction of the cost — still able, needs a little bit of guidance, but still able."

Codie Sanchez

uses recommends Said Jun 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"I like to think about ChatGPT like a Swiss Army knife. It can do everything pretty good, but maybe nothing amazingly. You use ChatGPT when you need to move fast and structure things quickly."

Kevin Rose

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"But yeah, I'm using right now Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini for some things."

"I think it was around GPT-4 I managed to fully automate my writing. I had my LinkedIn completely automated... I'd even written a whole e-book using GPT-4, and when I sent it to my client they couldn't tell that it wasn't me that had written it."

John Coogan

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"I completed my first agentic purchase on Shopify. I bought a raincoat. It was raining and I told Dot in ChatGPT, I need a raincoat. Go find it, buy it, send it to me, just do everything. And it used Shop Pay. And it has arrived."

"I had four days at home with just me and the kids. My wife is out of town, and there was a lot going on for both kids, parties and stuff, and it was just so nice being able to go into ChatGPT and say, 'Where do I need to be in the next hour?' Just..."

"I used a since-deprecated model, GPT-4.5, and I used it to do smoothing of prose. So what I would do is write my prose and be like, can you reword this in a way that sounds to me like it would have more of the following emotive features, etc. And ..."

"Well, now all of a sudden in Claude and ChatGPT, you know, I have a couple of expert programmers that work very quickly. They're not great at model design. They're not great at the empirical questions, but in terms of like, can you audit my code, ..."

"I use ChatGPT for most of my medical queries now, and it prevents me from seeing a lot of doctors."

"I'll go back to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is the film school student who has read every guide, seen everything, does not know what it means. It's great at: I know you're trying to do this, and here's, as they say in the Olympics, the compulsories. Here's w..."

"Let's take your number one product, your cookie, right? And I'm going to ask ChatGPT to create a competitor that is more GLP-1 friendly and will be priced lower. And I want a full bill of materials. I want sources, everything manufacturing. And in..."

"I would screenshot this and my original video. I would open up ChatGPT and I gave it to another agent there... And that ChatGPT then helped me kind of like understand my own process like, well, you have to explain to it where the light is coming f..."

"And then I actually took that to Gemini. Gemini could have performed better, but ChatGPT ended up making the illustration that was perfect. I took that into Cursor and generated on a high model."

"I then give all of my mock-ups to ChatGPT, who then builds out the whole flow and the UI. ... ChatGPT for my coding agent. I pay $100 a month for that."

"With a combination of Claude helping me write stories and ChatGPT giving wonderful oil paintings of Max and Danny from their photographs flying on Pegasus and the like, the kids can't wait to see me anymore. I'm visible."

"My favorite feature of AI is what they call deep research which is a feature on both I think it's on particularly on ChatGPT and on Claude"

Tim Ferriss

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"Oh my god, you kids have it good now. I love ChatGPT and Claude and so on. It's so much easier. You need to know how to interrogate the system."

"I find that Anthropic is more politically correct. ChatGPT will give it to me straighter."

"No, I use my ChatGPT to make me feel good sometimes... I think it's just figured me out. Just talk in short words and sentences and made me feel all right."

Tom Bilyeu

uses mentioned GPT-6 Astra · newest

"If you guys spent any time this weekend looking at OpenAI's release of ChatGPT GPT-6 Astra, it is completely insane. I got my first trial run of it this weekend and looking at what this is going to be able to do in terms of its impact on jobs..."

"This is why I like the ChatGPT app, because it gives the AI a home on your computer where you can focus on it, rather than just being another tab in my mess of internet options."

Claire Vo

uses mentioned GPT-5.6 Sol2 versions old · newest is GPT-6.1 Sol

"GPT-5.6 Sol is my default. I do love GPT-5.6 Sol. It's my favorite direct writer on PRDs — very matter-of-fact, very comprehensive, a little bit technical but not overly complex. It crushes at this dock routing app that I have it make. I think it'..."

"I can't afford $150 an hour for a career coach, but I can sign up for a $20 a month ChatGPT subscription and get some of that same result of externalizing my thinking, getting an outside perspective, and just holding me accountable for how I was t..."

"I was looking for a special keychain that would have a really easy separation for a valet key. And I was having trouble finding this actually on Google. And I finally was like, 'Let me just go ask ChatGPT.' And I went back and forth and I was desc..."

"I worked with ChatGPT, my trusted analyst, my financial analyst in my office here, to help kind of figure out what's the impact of these rates actually going to be on banks and what the impairment would be."

Simon Willison

uses mentioned GPT-5.42 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"OpenAI came out with GPT 5.4 about 3 weeks ago. It's very very very good. I think it's on par with Claude Opus 4.6"

Peter Diamandis

recommends mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"They have full duplex voice that can do simultaneous translation and support you in different ways. It is smooth. It works really well. If you haven't played with it, go to your ChatGPT app. It's up live right now."

"Here's the key thing: go out to Perplexity or ChatGPT, and here's what I type in. I say, I've just created a voice AI and a chat widget for this website. What five questions would you have me ask the voice AI in front of the owner to prove how goo..."

"You can actually use agents to go scour the internet. So, if you have ChatGPT, you just say, 'Hey, these are my emails. Go see if I've been pwned, and go to websites that I haven't used in 6 months, and delete all of them.' And it'll just log into..."

"Have you ever run into a very annoying paywall because you don't subscribe to that particular website? Well, go to your favorite friendly ChatGPT or Grok agent and say, 'Hey, can you find me a gift link of this article?' It will go on to X and fin..."

"My favorite is OpenAI right now. It's fantastic. I'll tell people about my little experiences, how I saved time by using it. And they said, 'Really?' So I'll say, 'Here, load ChatGPT. Play with it for a week or two and I'll come back and I'll show..."

Tara Seshan

recommends Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"Go download the ChatGPT app. Go use it on web. Even more transformatively, go try it on mobile. Take a long subway ride or something like that, and when you pop out after having no service, the thing is done for you. That's the part that feels sup..."

"Yes, you should be using either ChatGPT or some other LLM to assist in anything that you're doing that's analysis or writing — even in accounting, finance, compliance, legal."

"If you haven't tried building something with Claude or ChatGPT, something that's in your head, could be a game, it could be a dashboard, it could be your finances, it could be your stock market portfolio, and realize that you too can now program a..."

"You can set up a ChatGPT prompt and say, 'Hey, create me an SEO-based Facebook Marketplace ad. Make sure you list all the features.' I would also ask ChatGPT to do the title for you — create an SEO Facebook Marketplace title."

"If you really want, you can script it. Go to ChatGPT, throw in, hey, we got product XYZ, write a script, and then you can do a voiceover. So you can really simplify it."

"I encourage everybody to use cloud services as much as possible. Everybody should use ChatGPT and Claude — everybody should use that."

"My recommendation is always use the latest top model you can use. Right now it's GPT-5.5. I would always use the pro model for complex problems because that thinks in minutes. I pushed it to think for two hours — two hours in AI thinking is like y..."

"One thing that's magical in GPT 5.6 if you haven't tried it yet is computer use. Computer use is basically solved at this point. It's so much faster, and the fact that you can spin up agents to delegate tasks that can be quite nebulous — not even ..."

"For frequently asked questions, you just go to ChatGPT and type it in: 'I'm trying to rank a site for radon mitigation in Dallas. What are the common questions that consumers have about this?' And it'll spit out — ask Yelp, ask Reddit, ask all the..."

"My advice, and this goes for anyone, is just start with the tools available today, Claude Code and ChatGPT. Building software has never been more accessible."

"You can use AI. You can go to ChatGPT. I love eating a soft taco with beef and cheese and blah blah blah. The AI will tell you, why don't you try it like this? Try using some beans with the seasoning."

Sebastian Raschka

recommends mentioned Said Jan 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"So I suggested, 'Hey, let's try ChatGPT.' We copied the text into ChatGPT, and it fixed them. Instead of two hours going from link to link fixing that, it made that type of work much more seamless."

"But they've got to be for you, as opposed to googling or asking ChatGPT, hey, what's the top 10 things I should do?"

"This one's like 25% of my traffic's coming straight from ChatGPT, and I can see in my analytics."

"But I don't think I knew how much it would cost and how much money I needed to earn to then have the revenue to do it. I didn't have ChatGPT to talk to and say how can I afford this car?"

"I saw it just last week, Uber bought OpenAI ChatGPT for every employee. That's going to be the next shoe to drop: do you buy these things for every single employee?"

"If you do some basic arithmetic, let's say with ChatGPT, I think they said they've got 1.2 billion weekly active users. And let's say all of them want to launch something every month, that's 1.2 billion databases a month."

"Right now, the way that we work, let's say, with Claude or ChatGPT is you type a prompt, you realize it wasn't exactly what you wanted, you sort of do a new prompt."

Emad Mostaque

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"I put out a small physics theory. You can check that out with one lookup in ChatGPT, see standard model uniqueness, and there's a Lean proof there."

"You've had a new couch you want to buy on Amazon. You can actually ask ChatGPT to say, what would that look like in my house? And then say, go find me a few others and visualize those too."

"And for anybody that doesn't know, OpenAI are the company that produced ChatGPT."

"I've looked at my diesel data to see if we're getting any customers finding us from ChatGPT and stuff like that, and I might get like a couple visitors a week."

"The one thing I'll do now when I'm asking Claude or I'm asking ChatGPT something is to just ask it, pause, try and think my own answer, and then contrast and compare."

"Astra's an amazing model. It's good at so many things... One is it is a little bit faster on average because it uses fewer thinking tokens to do the same task. It's better at certain kinds of creative work... And then the last thing I find is it's..."