The main practical use I’ve found for me is writing a personalized cover letters when applying for jobs. Just plug in the job description, edit as needed, and off it goes. The way I see it, if HR can use it for their purposes, so can I.

I tried using the one that spontaneously generates text adventures, but they kept turning porny.

I use it a lot for code improvements. “I’m doing XYZ in my code. This is not efficient. Is there an algorithm to improve this?” Often times, there is.

Small one time use scripts, which aren’t worth the time investment to do properly.

Aside from small scripts and stupid joke images, I used ChatGPT on a vacation for extra details about the area I was in. It was when it first came out and Wikipedia and Google were obviously better for facts or finding restaurants but being able to ask follow-up questions was sometimes useful. You can be more vague and slowly zero in on what you’re actually asking about.

So, I don’t rely on it for anything important but it’s handy for a number of edge cases (sometimes, if only to figure out what you need to do a regular search for).

I mainly use LLMs as a programming assistant, as a brainstorming buddy and creative assistant while working on adventures for the tabletop roleplaying campaigns I run, and as a search result summarizer/interpreter over at Bing for the sorts of generic queries I used to use Google for.

• Coding (four different apps I would have not been able to complete by myself).
• Choosing color pallettes for UX design
• Numerous little utility scripts for work (Poweshell, SQL)
• Tabletop RPG prep (NPCs, locations, loot, factions, scenarios)

i used it successfully for social formal mail, like wishing business contacts i hardly knew farewell. you just tell it to write a farewell mail for john paste it in your email and change stuff you don’t like

Nothing much, just use them when I want to discover something new… news websites, books, series…places…etc

I have.