I use ChatGPT to recommend which restaurant I should eat at and what food I should eat. So often that I decided to share a profile of my eating preferences. But rather than think about it and type it myself, I asked it to Efficiently interview me to identify my food preferences. Document it for AI agents to help me pick restaurants. Plan like an expert. ...
Indian Celebrities and Directors was my top searched category on Google while OpenAI & AI Research was the top growing category. This is based on my 37,600 searches on Google since Jan 2021. Full analysis: https://sanand0.github.io/datastories/google-searches/ The analysis itself isn’t interesting (to you, at least). Rather, it’s the two tools that enabled it. First, topic modeling. If you have all your searches exported (via Google Takeout) into a text file, you can run: ...
Here’s how I use ChatGPT, based on the ~6,000 conversations I’ve had in 2 years. My top use, by far, is for technology. “Modern JavaScript Coding” and “Python Coding Questions” are ~30% of my queries. There’s a long list with Markdown, GitLab, GitHub, Shell, D3, Auth, JSON, CSS, DuckDB, SQLite, Pandas, FFMPeg, etc. featured prominently. Next is to brainstorm AI use: “AI Panel Discussions”, “AI Trends and Business Impact”, “LLM Applications and DSLs”, “Industry Use Cases and Metrics” are also fast growing categories. I brainstorm talk outlines, refine slide deck narratives, and plan business ideas. ...
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. ...
I looked at how Gramener uses ChatGPT Plus by evaluating 600+ chats asked over 3 months from Oct 2023 to Jan 2024. The team asks 6 questions a day. We don't track who or how many actively use ChatGPT Plus. This also excludes personal ChatGPT accounts. Still, 6/day is low for an entire team put together. The questions fall into 8 categories. Category%Excel, data exploration & analysis25%Text extraction and summarization13%HTML, CSS, or JavaScript code13%Python code13%LLMs, AI and use cases9%OCR and image analysis9%Generate images, logos, and designs7%General knowledge, policy & environment5%Audio and translation5% Here are some questions from each category - to give you an idea of emergent ChatGPT Plus usage. ...