I extracted the titles of the ~1,600 conversations I had with ChatGPT in 2025 so far and classified it against the list of How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025.
Here are the top 8 things I use it for, along with representative chat titles. (The % match in brackets tells you how similar the chat title is to the use case.)
Improving code (clearly, I code a lot) Troubleshooting (usually code) Corporate LLM/Copilot (this is mostly LLM research I do) Generating code (more code) Generating ideas (yeah, I’ve stopped thinking) Simple explainers (slightly surprising how often I ask for simple explanations) Generating relevant images. (Surprising, but I think I generated a lot of images for blog/LinkedIn posts) Specific search (actually, this is mis-classified. This is where I’m searching for search engines!) My classification has errors. For example, “Reduce Code Size” was classified against “Generating code” but should have been “Improving code”. But it’s not too far off.
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