Ask HN: What do you use ChatGPT / Claude for?

Mostly for boiler plate code/text. Also for initial research about a topic—-thereafter, I do my own probing elsewhere and also ask follow-up questions based on my findings. It's a also a great place to ask a dumb question about anything and get a "seemingly" sensible answer without having to feel that you were judged for it. All in all, it's a feel-good tool :D

Ever since I read that thread [0] about how AI companions are helping reduce loneliness, I started using ChatGPT and Claude just for casual conversations, similar to how I used to chat with friends on Discord. I initially used them for coding help, but now I often max out my message limits just chit-chatting, especially since the larger models are great for that. The only thing holding me back is the message limits—ChatGPT and Claude often tell me I’ve hit a cooldown, or when the conversation gets too long, I’m prompted to start a new one and lose context. As these models improve, I think I’ll use them more and more for conversation, treating them as characters to talk to rather than just tools like most people do.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613513

I work in marketing.

Record a loom video. Copy the transcript. Go to Claude, “Summarize key bullet points” + paste the transcript. Share the loom + Claude output together.

Use ChatGPT to write a script to automate some stuff with Google Apps Script + Asana API. Ask it to catch errors and email me a detailed error log if the script crashes. Script crashes and I just paste the error log into ChatGPT. Get a new better working version of the script.

I am back to being a child asking a million questions about everything. It’s so much more rewarding to be curious when you get straightforward answers instead of SEO spam. I love that I can ask follow-up questions.

It also saves me a lot of docs and StackOverflow lookups. I started asking about things I know the answer to in case I missed a library feature or a more elegant approach.