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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

software

144 creators use or recommend it

▲ 62 active in the last 90 days

14 use + recommend 114 use 16 recommend 213 mention 31 critical
Last discussed Oct 21, 2026

OpenAI's conversational AI chatbot powered by GPT models.

Which ChatGPT model should I use?

GPT-6 Astra for the hardest work. GPT-6 Sol is cheaper, and some creators say it's all they need. For coding, most creators use OpenAI's Codex app.

Based on what creators said on podcasts and YouTube. Summary written Oct 4, 2026. Numbers below are live.

The lineup

Latest version of each
Price $$

OpenAI's flagship since Sep 4. The one creators reach for on hard problems.

Coding Research Agents and automation
8 creators endorse GPT-6 Astra

"They're really putting it in the class of Fable, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus 5.5. Both of those are now my daily drivers."

Claire Vo
Price $

Launched Sep 22 as a cheaper option to Astra. Good for everyday work.

Writing Agents and automation
1 creator endorse GPT-6 Sol

"Big Codex stand, using Astra all day. It's like my new daily driver. Soul is just like it's got everything I need but it's much cheaper for me on writing, on computer use, and o..."

Dan Shipper
Price ¢

A low-cost GPT-6 model, also launched Sep 22.

0 creators endorse GPT-6 Luna

Not enough creator takes yet.

Price $

The previous generation, from June. Still in wide use.

Agents and automation Coding Personal assistant
7 creators endorse GPT-5.6 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..."

Claire Vo

What creators use ChatGPT for

Research 69 creators

"I asked ChatGPT. I said, 'What is the strongest damning evidence that Elizabeth Holmes committed fraud at Theranos?' And it basically says, 'Here's the strongest one. She personally doctored the Pfizer reports.'"

Best AI for research →
Writing 35 creators

"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.'"

Best AI for writing →
Agents and automation 30 creators

"Christopher and I were working on an agent that I've been working with ChatGPT on, and I was being pretty firm with it, 'cause you're trying to train your agent, right?"

Best AI for agents and automation →
Coding 29 creators

"If you want to do longer projects and you want to have a lot of use of GPT-6, I highly recommend at least for one month getting the $100 per month plan, this Pro plan right here. You will learn so much if you use this..."

Best AI for coding →
Brainstorming 24 creators

"You are probably going to want to subscribe to either Google's Gemini product, Anthropic's Claude product, or OpenAI's ChatGPT product for 20 bucks a month. And you're going to want to, when you do serious work, pick ..."

Best AI for brainstorming →
Personal assistant 23 creators

"Overall I would say I still prefer Grokbot as number one. I still use it every day along with ChatGPT and Claude for individual work streams."

Best AI for a personal assistant →

How ChatGPT compares

Creators who picked a side
GPT-6 vs Opus 5.5 Early takes · 7 creators

Too early to call. 3 creators lean Opus 5.5, 3 use both.

Claire Vo Uses both · Oct 14
Peter Yang Uses both · Oct 13
Emad Mostaque Uses both · Oct 1
KK Kieran Klaassen Prefers Opus 5.5 · Sep 30
Riley Brown Prefers Opus 5.5 · Sep 27
KP Katie Parrott Prefers Opus 5.5 · Sep 24
Dan Shipper Prefers GPT-6 · Sep 22

We'll show a full comparison once 10 creators have weighed in.

Claude vs ChatGPT 64 creators
22 prefer Claude 33 use both 9 prefer ChatGPT
ChatGPT vs Gemini 25 creators
9 prefer ChatGPT 12 use both 4 prefer Gemini
ChatGPT vs Grok 18 creators
5 prefer ChatGPT 9 use both 4 prefer Grok
ChatGPT vs Codex 8 creators
1 prefer ChatGPT 5 use both 2 prefer Codex
ChatGPT vs Claude Code 6 creators
2 prefer ChatGPT 0 use both 4 prefer Claude Code

Who's switching

ChatGPT → Claude 6 creators in the last 4 months Peter Yang, Katie Parrott, and This Week in Startups
Claude → ChatGPT 2 creators in the last 4 months Dave Blundin and Peter Yang
Claude Code → ChatGPT 1 creator in the last 4 months Peter Yang
ChatGPT → Claude Code 1 creator in the last 4 months Jonathan Courtney

What else do they all swear by?

Tim Ferriss, Andrew Huberman, Chris Williamson and 141 others use or recommend ChatGPT. See what else they have in common.

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What creators say

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Chris Koerner
uses recommends mentioned Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Identifying valuable or collectible items from estate sale photos to determine what to highlight in marketing vs: Mentioned alongside Claude as an equivalent option

"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..."

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"They're corporate guys. They use ChatGPT to look over an email or a contract every now and then. That's about the extent of it."

"You can run your entire account from inside ChatGPT or Claude."

Greg Isenberg
uses recommends mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Manually running agent workflows by copy-pasting context and drafting outputs during the pilot phase vs: Mentioned alongside Claude as equivalent tools for this manual testing step

"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."

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"OpenAI's bet is to put the checkout right inside the conversation. So, you can already buy from Etsy and Shopify stores without leaving ChatGPT."

GPT-6.1 Sol · newest

"They've obviously launched GPT-6.1 Soul, which was huge, which is obviously a major upgrade to GPT-6, but we kind of expected that."

Peter Yang
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Individual work streams and his own chief-of-staff thread vs: Prefers his own ChatGPT chief-of-staff thread over ChatGPT Dots

"Overall I would say I still prefer Grokbot as number one. I still use it every day along with ChatGPT and Claude for individual work streams."

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GPT-6 Astra · newest

"Yeah, I really like Astra's version. I think it's very simple... There's a clear call to action to enter the email address. And down here, I really..."

"I've been using it as my default harness for the past four or five months and overall it's incredible. The voice mode, computer use, browser use, a..."

a16z
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Rewriting and updating an old academic dissertation with current information Praised: Rapid improvement; output impressed a skeptical Harvard professor vs: Compared with earlier AI versions she had tried and found unimpressive

"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.'"

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+8 more mentions from a16z

"ChatGPT was a big one, you know, I think for a lot of folks in November '22 and a bit of '23. It was like, 'What is this thing that can write email..."

GPT-213 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"Maybe they're just unjustifiably worried themselves, just like they were worried about GPT-2 — they were like GPT-2 is world-ending and then it was..."

Riley Brown
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Generating inline mini-apps such as a calendar and a housing affordability tool Praised: Spawns tailored UI inline, shareable conversations

"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."

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GPT-6.1 Sol · newest

"And I would say GPT 6.1 Sol is actually better than Gemini 4 Argon at almost everything."

"So when I'm on do not disturb, the only app that sends me notifications is ChatGPT. So that means if something really important is happening, only ..."

Ali Abdaal
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Personal tutor for learning Linux, banking history, and quizzes Praised: Explains things at your level in an interesting way vs: Prefers how Claude does interactive visuals; dislikes ChatGPT's very long res...

"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..."

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"If you don't want to use Superfocus, you can always try and connect different apps to ChatGPT and run a routine overnight or something to flag these."

"I would just take your situation, ask GPT. It'll actually give you very reasonable financial advice on this."

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Gary Vaynerchuk
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Replacing traditional Google search for looking things up vs: Used instead of Google search, alongside Perplexity and Gemini

"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."

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"Uses Claude or ChatGPT to learn how do you sell on Whatnot? What are good ideas? How do you ship product? All the questions everybody right now in ..."

"If Rips needed a house and I had to buy him one, I'm going to ChatGPT and saying, 'Who's the best real estate agent in Atlanta?' Whatever shows up,..."

Dan Shipper
uses recommends mentioned

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

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"Argon sent back a critique and some proposals, and then ChatGPT did them as track changes in the doc, and it was all very, very fast."

GPT-6.1 Sol · newest

"We've also got Sol 6.1. So they're launching a new version of Sol. It's got Astra-level performance, but it's 50% of the price. If you like Astra b..."

Chris Williamson
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Sending genetic data and asking for personality insights based on genetic profile Praised: Provided interesting and accurate personality insights from genetic data

"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..."

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+27 more mentions from Chris

"Especially now, ChatGPT voice commands and stuff. I wonder what additional efficiency gains will be able to be made by people that are using voice."

"Mark, can you just search ChatGPT, who was the chicken farmer that brought down Adolf Hitler?"

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Ethan Mollick
uses recommends mentioned GPT-5.24 versions old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: Reviewing his own academic papers to find errors Praised: Called it the smartest model out there; it runs its own Monte Carlo analysis ... vs: Described as the smartest model available

"I can throw a full academic paper that I've written a couple years ago into ChatGPT 5.2 Pro, which is the smartest model out there. It will find errors that require it to have run its own Monte Carlo analysis on assumptions from table three and ta..."

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+2 more mentions from Ethan
GPT-5.24 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"You are probably going to want to subscribe to either Google's Gemini product, Anthropic's Claude product, or OpenAI's ChatGPT product for 20 bucks..."

GPT-410 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"We did an early experiment with my colleagues at Harvard, MIT, University of Warwick, at Boston Consulting Group. We found 40% improvements in qual..."

Liam Ottley
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Running his company and team on a shared AI platform with agents, shared documents, and admin controls Praised: Multiplayer team collaboration, deep admin console controls, Slack integratio... vs: First major lab with a comprehensive business offering. He advises Google-sta...

"OpenAI just released a new ChatGPT business platform and today I moved my entire company onto it and all my team and tested every new feature. And it's clear to me that if you run a business, this is the one AI update that you can't ignore."

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"You can just have a brainstorming session with Claude or ChatGPT and go through, hey, let's look at Roman stuff or Latin stuff or Greek stuff."

"When I think about AI projects, I'm always working with Claude and ChatGPT."

Anish Acharya
uses recommends mentioned
Used for: Personal AI agent that manages tasks across coding agents and threads via voice and text Praised: Full deep duplex voice mode, can see all threads, cloud execution, good brows... vs: Compared to Grok Bot (one-way transcription) and Instinct; noted as less aggr...

"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..."

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Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"If you've used the ChatGPT desktop app, you know what I mean. If you haven't, please install it. It's very, very cool and interesting. It's the per..."

Said Feb 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"75% have raised prices since ChatGPT was released. 75% and they've raised prices meaningfully."

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Pat Walls
uses recommends mentioned Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Brainstorming and exploring database business ideas vs: Mentioned alongside Claude as an alternative tool for the same use case

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

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Said Sep 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"Apps that are built on top of tools like ChatGPT and Claude, similar to what Piotr built today and what's clearly working."

Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"You can take that, you can put it into Claude, into ChatGPT. It's all free, you can download it right there."

Codie Sanchez
uses recommends Said Jun 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: First drafts, prompt engineering for other tools, moving fast and structuring things quickly Praised: Versatile, fast, good at structuring outputs vs: Compared to Perplexity (better for sourced research) and Claude (better for d...

"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."

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Said Apr 2026, when GPT-5.4 was newest

"You can use tools like Claude and Replit and ChatGPT, and they can help you build this."

Build an AI Service Biz · Apr 12, 2026
Said Feb 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"All you have to bring an open mind, some crazy ideas, your laptop charged important ChatGPT or Claude and Replit."

Tim Ferriss
uses mentioned
Used for: Fact-checking and research Praised: Makes research and fact-checking much easier vs: Compared to how hard research was when writing The 4-Hour Body

"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."

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"By the way, you may have noticed that ChatGPT and other LLMs do this. You ask your question, they're like, 'That's a really smart question.'"

Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"I'm going to go to ChatGPT or Claude and ask them that question — I liked the Duolingo Spanish podcast and I want the equivalent for Mandarin. What..."

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Scott Galloway
uses mentioned
Praised: Gives it to him straighter vs: Less politically correct than Claude; less deliberately offensive than xAI's ...

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

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"So the reason why Anthropic has accelerated ahead of ChatGPT, kind of the initial gangster from a valuation standpoint, is because of that. It's be..."

"By 2024, half of all articles primarily written by AI, up from just 5% before ChatGPT."

John Coogan
uses mentioned
Used for: Explaining SEC market manipulation law with generated widgets Praised: Fast streaming answers, auto-generated widgets, better UI and product experience

"The generative UI stuff in ChatGPT. We talked about it yesterday and got a chance to demo it. Much better experience with the answers streaming in. I asked it to explain this whole SEC market manipulation thing. I fire off a big prompt and it gets..."

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"It's actually an interesting hack. You can have ChatGPT go and hunt for properties that are in pre-foreclosure and make below-market offers and get..."

"I've used Plaid in ChatGPT to authenticate a bunch of bank accounts. It's great."

CT
Used for: Emotional reassurance and pep talks Praised: Adapts to his preferred communication style

"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."

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Kevin Rose
uses mentioned
Used for: Editing a podcast via DaVinci Resolve's MCP server Praised: Connects directly to software and performs the edits itself

"I drop in three camera shots, two pieces of audio, and I said, go make the podcast. And I just said that, I told that to ChatGPT. It connected directly. I'm watching on the screen. It's rearranging everything, editing it, doing all that stuff."

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+3 more mentions from Kevin

"If you thought Claude or ChatGPT was really good at helping you write, wait till you throw this harness on top of the AI."

Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"You could do this in whichever model you're using, whether it's Copilot or ChatGPT or whatever. If it knows you — if it has enough history on you —..."

Tom Bilyeu
uses mentioned GPT-6 Astra · newest
Used for: Trial/evaluation of AI capabilities and impact on jobs Praised: Described as 'completely insane' in capability; can take control of a compute...

"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..."

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"OpenAI says that it's run its own models on the device to figure out what it was and where it came from... So at this point, ChatGPT is the new She..."

"Iranian operators were just prompting ChatGPT. They had ChatGPT translate that back into English and then review the English drafts against the out..."

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Nathan Lambert
uses mentioned Said Jan 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"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."

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"When ChatGPT was released, we talked about consolidation of the industry and predicting it."

GPT-213 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"When I was writing about OpenAI's open model release, they were like, 'Don't forget about GPT-2,' which I thought was really funny 'cause it's just..."

Claire Vo
uses mentioned GPT-5.6 Sol2 versions old · newest is GPT-6.1 Sol
Used for: PRD writing, prototyping, complex UI design, dock routing app, dense information architecture Praised: Clean, matter-of-fact, comprehensive writing style; best at complex UI design... vs: Compared to Grok 4.6 (competitive but different strengths), Claude Sonnet 5 a...

"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'..."

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GPT-6.1 Sol · newest

"Soul and Astra were so good at this. Opus 5.5 was so good at this. And I would just say like Muse was okay, but not great at it."

GPT-6 · newest

"We saw GPT-6 Soul, GPT-6 Luna."

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Katie Parrott
uses mentioned Said Sep 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Career coaching, externalizing thinking, getting outside perspective, accountability during job search Praised: Affordable alternative to a human career coach, helps externalize thinking, p... vs: Used as an alternative to a $150/hour human career coach

"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..."

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"I use ChatGPT for vibe checks and context window, but I use Claude for my personal stuff."

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Josh Elman
uses
Used for: Commercial shopping and product discovery through back-and-forth conversation; travel research Praised: Gave really good examples and found a niche made-in-America option; clearly l... vs: He couldn't find the item on Google

"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..."

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David Friedberg
uses mentioned
Used for: Analyzing the impact of rising rates on bank balance sheets and equity impairment Praised: Trusted as a financial analyst

"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."

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

"Mimo Pro performs on par with Claude's Opus 5 and GPT-5 across most benchmarks. It's a 309 billion parameter model. It is entirely open. You can do..."

Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"You don't have to go pay Anthropic or Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT for AI. You can actually use this AI model for free and no one's making money off..."

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Harry Stebbings
uses mentioned Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Medical queries as an alternative to visiting doctors vs: Mentioned as a reason he visits doctors less frequently

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

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"I used to be a massive OpenAI user in ChatGPT, and now I just live my life through Instinct."

"I wait minutes for responses. Minutes. It's like the first days of ChatGPT."

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"

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GPT-6 · newest

"We had such big price drops just a week ago. GPT-6 was 50% off."

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GPT-5.15 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"in November we had what I call the inflection point where GPT 5.1 and Claude Opus 4.5 came along and they were both just ex they were incrementally..."

CW
Used for: Futures research — querying new job categories associated with emerging technology platforms vs: Mentioned alongside Grok as equivalent tools for this exercise

"I do an exercise — go to ChatGPT or to Grok and say, 'I want you to consult with futurists, scientists, engineers, science fiction, economists, strategists and tell me what the new jobs associated with our five major platforms will be.' And you kn..."

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DP
Used for: Hands-free email management and calendar management during bike commute via voice Praised: Full email categorization, labeling, replies, and calendar invites completed ... vs: Compared to Muse voice, which doesn't have this connector capability yet

"I was biking to work, hands are busy, I want to get stuff done, and I just start talking to ChatGPT voice. I just open up a session, start chatting with it. And throughout my 30-minute bike ride to work, categorized my emails, submitted them to di..."

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Jordi Hays
uses mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Replacing standalone apps — checking weather forecasts, pulling surf reports Praised: Can replace many single-purpose apps vs: Used instead of dedicated weather app and surf report apps

"I don't even need the weather app. I can just ask ChatGPT, give me the weather for the next week. Even things like surf reports — I'll just pull a surf report in chat."

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"GPT-3.5 powered the original ChatGPT. GPT-4 was only available through Bing."

"If I want to get an update understanding of like swell and tide and all these things, I actually don't need a net new app for that. I just need Cha..."

YS
Used for: Looking up information about himself to settle a debate about whether he is a stand-up comedian or a one-man show

"I go, 'ChatGPT, is Yakov a stand-up comedian or is he a one-man show?' And ChatGPT said Yakov Smirnoff used to be a stand-up comedian and now he is a one-man show. And now coming from ChatGPT I'm going, dang, that's now official."

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Thomas Sohmers
uses GPT-3.511 versions old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: General prompting and experimentation at launch Praised: Described as the most magical experience ever had with a computer vs: Compared to GPT-6 Astra as a similarly magical first experience

"I was at the ChatGPT launch at NeurIPS in 2022. When I went back to the hotel, I loaded it up and I was up for four or five hours straight just giving random prompts — this was the most magical experience that I've ever had with a computer."

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SS
Used for: Writing and research tasks vs: Used alongside Claude (marketing content) and Gemini (video/audio processing)

"Claude for marketing content, ChatGPT for writing and research."

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JW
Used for: Research aggregation — replacing multiple browser tabs of Wikipedia and economic statistics when writing or researching Praised: Consolidates multi-source research queries into a single conversation, saving... vs: Previously used 12 tabs with Wikipedia and economic statistics

"I just love being able to open up the voice mode or the dictate website, ask seven different questions across statistics and links and some charts and then just have it all in one go. I used to have 12 tabs with Wikipedia and some economic statist..."

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Garry Tan
uses mentioned GPT-6 · newest
Used for: Debugging and resolving previously unsolvable coding issues Praised: Palpably smarter agents; resolves bugs that previously couldn't be figured out

"Just start prompting. Opening up GPT-6 today was pretty wild. Just that moment where your agents are, you know, palpably smarter. A bunch of things that you've been annoyed about, like these bugs that you haven't had time to deep dive yourself — y..."

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GPT-6 Astra · newest

"Now you might not need that person on day one. You could just go to GPT-6 Astra. You say, 'Hey, look, this is what I'm trying to figure out.' And y..."

Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"The frontier model labs that are letting you use ChatGPT or Claude, I think that they're still pretty constrained on the amount of compute they wan..."

TBPN
uses mentioned GPT-5.33 versions old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: AI conversations and coding tasks Praised: Instant full response loading instead of token streaming, much faster user ex... vs: Compared to traditional token streaming LLMs

"I've used it you should use it it's a very interesting experience because I think a lot of people have interacted with LLMs and chat bots and they're sort of used to this token streaming in. It's way better when you just land on a Wikipedia page, ..."

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"How ChatGPT or Gemini or Grok talks about your brand or products or services really is just a function of all marketing that lives on the web."

Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"You obviously can't just be like, 'Hi, ChatGPT, do this for me,' because someone will notice."

JV
Used for: Image generation and design Praised: Spectacular designs, better than human output vs: Compared to Claude; both praised; both preferred over human designers

"With both Claude and the new ChatGPT, especially the image generator, some of the designs are just spectacular. They're better than anything I've seen any human do."

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Andrew Huberman
uses mentioned
Used for: Accessing more information and data Praised: Provides more information and data; Joe Rogan says he loves it

"I love ChatGPT. I know people are like, 'Oh, this is going to take over the world and destroy things.' But for me, more information, more data is always better."

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"They're saying ChatGPT is bad because patients are coming in and they're like, 'Hey, ChatGPT says that what you're recommending is perhaps not the ..."

Said Sep 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"I'll go into ChatGPT and I'll just say, 'Generate a short test of a graduate student at Stanford level questions about neuroplasticity,' and I go a..."

Peter Diamandis
recommends mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Real-time voice conversation, simultaneous language translation, language learning correction Praised: Smooth, full duplex bidirectional voice, crosses the uncanny valley, simultan... vs: Compared favorably to what X and Google have; described as crossing the 'cool...

"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."

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GPT-6 Astra · newest

"They estimated that a world-class physicist would take about a day to answer each of these 50. And GPT-6 Astra answered it at a cost of about $3 pe..."

"There's also the conversation that a lot of the solutions were perhaps leaked from previous conversations mathematicians had with their ChatGPT."

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Alex Wilhelm
recommends
Used for: Finding gift links to get past article paywalls Praised: Searches X to find shareable gift links vs: Offered alongside Grok as an equivalent option

"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..."

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Jim Riley
recommends
Used for: Personal productivity and small business workflows; recommending to clients as an introduction to AI Praised: Saves significant time — in five days on vacation did more than he would do i...

"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..."

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Tara Seshan
recommends Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Running background AI tasks in the cloud via desktop, web, and mobile; building sites, visualizing data, doing work asynchronously during commutes Praised: Runs tasks in the cloud without requiring the user to be present; mobile app ...

"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..."

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Will England
recommends Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Analysis and writing assistance across all business functions including accounting, finance, compliance, and legal Praised: Makes employees faster, smarter, and more effective

"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."

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Raoul Pal
recommends Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Building apps, dashboards, financial tools, and games without technical knowledge Praised: Allows non-technical people to program anything in minutes by talking to it vs: Mentioned alongside Claude as equally accessible AI building tools

"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..."

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Shannon Jean
recommends Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Writing SEO-optimized Facebook Marketplace ad descriptions and titles for resale listings Praised: Quickly generates feature-rich, keyword-optimized listing copy; saves time on...

"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."

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Trevin Peterson
recommends Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Writing scripts for Amazon product review videos

"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."

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Jensen Huang
recommends mentioned Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: General AI cloud services for individuals and companies vs: Mentioned alongside Claude as complementary cloud AI services to use before b...

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

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+1 more mention from Jensen
Said Mar 2026, when GPT-5.4 was newest

"It wasn't until Chat GPT put a user interface around it made it easy for us to use that generative AI took off."

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Derya Unutmaz
recommends GPT-5.51 version old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: Complex biological data analysis, predicting experimental outcomes, medical diagnosis, analyzing immunological datasets; physicians should use it for complex patient cases Praised: Crossed the threshold of biological intuition (98% accuracy matching expert p... vs: Superior to GPT-4o (ancient history for hallucinations), o1 preview, and inst...

"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..."

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Romain Huet
recommends GPT-5.6 Sol2 versions old · newest is GPT-6.1 Sol
Used for: Delegating tasks via computer use; navigating apps and Chrome tabs autonomously Praised: Much faster than before, understands nebulous intent, fully autonomous task c...

"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 ..."

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Luke Van Der Veer
recommends Said Jul 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest
Used for: Generating FAQ content and sourcing consumer questions for SEO-optimized website content Praised: Can pull exact quotes from Yelp, Reddit, Facebook when prompted correctly

"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..."

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Ras Mic
recommends mentioned GPT-5.42 versions old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: Backend development Praised: Better for backend development vs: Compared to Opus which is better for UI design

"GPT 5.4 is amazing. GPT 5.4 is the better backend."

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Said May 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"There are people who spend 10 years of their life to acquire information that you and I now have access to for $20 a month. And if you don't want t..."

TM
Thomas Mahony
recommends Said Mar 2026, when GPT-5.4 was newest

"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."

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Don Malem
recommends Said Feb 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"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."

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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."

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Said Jan 2026, when GPT-5.2 was newest

"ChatGPT has a memory feature, right? And so you may have a subscription and you use it for personal stuff, but I don't know if you want to use that..."

GPT-213 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"And then you start, let's say, with your GPT-2 model and add these things."

Shaan Puri
mentioned
Used for: Researching the evidence in the Elizabeth Holmes fraud case

"I asked ChatGPT. I said, 'What is the strongest damning evidence that Elizabeth Holmes committed fraud at Theranos?' And it basically says, 'Here's the strongest one. She personally doctored the Pfizer reports.'"

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Said Aug 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"You take what ChatGPT can do in terms of the intelligence, but you added the warm feel of a character who's yours — with a name, with a different w..."

Said Jun 2026, when GPT-5.5 was newest

"Now Grok is falling behind Anthropic and ChatGPT. Grok has 100 million users, whereas ChatGPT has a billion. So 10 times smaller."

"All these rich people are going to get a lot richer from AI and I'm just going to be sitting here with my ChatGPT. I don't see any of the upside."

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GPT-6 · newest

"OpenAI's GPT-6 Soul and Luna came in about 50% cheaper with Soul at $2 per million tokens."

GPT-6 Astra · newest

"OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra attempted 97 out of 100 trials and completed 60 of them. It refused only two on safety grounds. This is no jailbreaks, no work..."

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Sameer Dholakia
mentioned GPT-312 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"He shows me a demo of Jasper, that's this AI marketing app sitting on top of GPT-3."

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Anthony Pompliano
mentioned
Used for: Original model underlying the first version of Silvia vs: Silvia later moved off the ChatGPT wrapper to its own models and harness

"It was a ChatGPT model with software around it that basically fed the context of my personal finances plus the query. And so that is the definition of a ChatGPT wrapper. That's where we started 18-ish months ago."

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Eric Glyman
mentioned GPT-312 versions old · newest is GPT-6
Used for: Early AI work on receipt matching and accounting code autocomplete vs: Contrasted with today's models solving unsolved math problems

"We were one of the first customers to use GPT-3 when it was a research product, months before it... and I remember it couldn't do arithmetic."

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Patrick Hsu
mentioned

"We started Arc, the labs came online in July '22... So this is pre-ChatGPT, certainly."

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Terry Angelos
mentioned
Used for: Getting recommendations for a piano teacher vs: An agent completed the full booking, while ChatGPT only gave recommendations

"You know, I asked ChatGPT about this a while ago, and I got some recommendations, but just last night I asked an agent, and it did the entire transaction task for me."

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Misha Laskin
mentioned GPT-410 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"Which is basically where language models started, which were chatbots in the Gemini 1 and ChatGPT era, the GPT-4 era. They were just chatbots."

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Matt Garman
mentioned
Used for: Applying insights from reading

"You can take this stuff and put it into Claude, and then take how can I apply this to my life, or ChatGPT it, or to my investment thinking."

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Joe Lonsdale
mentioned GPT-312 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"Obviously, you were saying in 2020, I think you realized you said that AGI was going to become possible. I think that's right around when GPT-3 came out from OpenAI."

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Robert Greene
mentioned
Used for: Looking up certain things

"I don't want you to stop all the technology in your life. That's not possible. And I'd be a hypocrite to say I don't use ChatGPT sometimes to look up certain things. But I want you to be aware of how it's deadening you."

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"What OpenAI has done is shown that when you have essentially a billion people using ChatGPT a week, that's a great distribution channel."

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GPT-213 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"the unwillingness to release ChatGPT-2 which in retrospect was overdone"

Said Apr 2026, when GPT-5.4 was newest

"When we started this podcast, you went on to ChatGPT or Claude."

"The suits say OpenAI is marketing ChatGPT as safe for kids under 13 and that it plainly is not."

Codie Sanchez
critical

"Why do you think that your MacBook and ChatGPT Pro subscription can do better? They can't."

Liam Ottley
critical

"They're kind of mopping up OpenAI at this point. You could just see the difference between, hey, ChatGPT has now got spaces and pages, versus org-level access and perms and tracing and machine learning."

Ali Abdaal
critical

"Of course, you can get a lot of free business advice off of ChatGPT. But the problem with ChatGPT is that ChatGPT gives you very generic advice."

Cal Newport
critical

"Looking through his phone after his death, they stumbled upon extended conversations the teenager had had with ChatGPT. Those conversations revealed that their son had confided in the AI chatbot about his suicidal thoughts and plans. Not only did ..."

Tony Robbins
critical

"People are now going to ChatGPT and there are all these lawsuits. 1.3 million people a week asked ChatGPT about suicide. There's another article about a woman who committed suicide and ChatGPT not only explained how to do it but it wrote her suici..."

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Nate Soares
critical GPT-4o9 versions old · newest is GPT-6

"Last year, OpenAI releases GPT-4o and they say it's the most aligned model we've ever seen, and then it encourages a teen to commit suicide. And they're like, whoops, we're going to try and fix that."

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Brad Stulberg
critical

"I got a $20 a month ChatGPT membership and I got a $20 a month Claude membership. And initially, I started by running pieces of writing through the machine and asking it for five suggestions to make the piece better."

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