Back in the day, I got ChatGPT Plus mostly for work and to help me write better and do stuff faster. But now I use it for almost everything. Like planning things, rewriting things, orgnizing my thoughts, helping me start things when I didn't know where to begin, and even just when I feel mentally tired and don’t want to think so hard, which is kinda becoming more frequent.
It helps a lot.. Like a lot a lot. Sometimes I honestly wish it would help me in car repairs, but I guess that's too much in the future lol.
I feel way more productive now than I used to be. I get through work faster, I don’t get stuck as much (though sometimes when the context windows shrinks or content gets truncated, quality feels off directly), and I waste less time sitting there overthinking dumb stuff. Between ChatGPT, Claude, and a couple smaller tools I’ve tried, I’ve noticed my whole workflow feels smoother now. I am literally hooked to ChatGPT + Bearbits + Claude Cowork for my work, like I couldn't imagine myself without them (though I'm on ChatGPT Pro + all the other subs that kinda bleed too much money, roughly $350 per month, but the good thing is that I can afford it for now).., AI in general is becoming part of how I think through work now, like slightly panicking when I am *outside* without my meeting transcript app and people ask things that I usually just let AI answer based on my past meetings in literally one click, or when someone asks me to do a presentation without preparing my script beforehand with ChatGPT, or like even the boring things of creating powerpoint slides...
This is what kind of worries me. :/
I can feel myself depending on AI more and more., even for small things that maybe I should still be doing with my own *little, not AI-native* brain. Like how to start writing something, how to structure an idea, how to word a message, or even just how to think through something when I feel lazy.
And I keep wondering like what does this actually do to us long term? Like for us as humanity overall..
Because yes, it makes life easier. Yes, it makes me more productive. But is it also making usthink less? And if it is, what does that mean for our brains after years of this? What happens if we get too used to not struggling mentally anymore? Like how will 2040 people look like, assuming that we didn't nuke ourselves...
I’m not saying AI is bad. I actually love it and use it all the time now. I’m probably already more dependent on it than I want to admit. If it disappeared tomorroow I would feel the difference instantly. I guess we did feel a taste of this when the GPT-4o model disappeared..
I just keep thinking maybe this is helping us a lot, but maybe it’s also changing something deeper in us too. Like not only how we work (which is probably gonna be a fun ride in the upcoming years:)), but how we think, and maybe even how we find meaning in doing things ourselves.
PLEASE tell me we are not doomed..
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