The seven jobs it does well
Draft. Turns a blank page into a rough page. Fast.
Shorten. Long thing into short thing. Transcript into action list.
Expand. Rough notes into a full email or document.
Change the tone. Angry to polite. Technical to plain. English to Spanish.
Explain. Anything, at any level, as many times as you want.
Organise. Messy thoughts into a table, list, timeline or plan.
Give options. Twenty ideas on demand. You pick the good ones.
Key idea
Notice the pattern
All seven change something you gave it.
It’s strongest when you bring the material and it does the shaping.
The more you give it, the better it gets.
Best places to use it
Anything you dread. The awkward email. The complaint. The apology.
Anything you repeat. Same document, different details. Every time.
Anything you don’t understand. A contract, a bill, a medical letter.
Anything you’re stuck on. Twenty rough ideas beat staring at nothing.
Anything in a second language.
Any format you half-remember. Formal letters, invoices, agendas.
Uses nobody mentions
Think out loud. Explain your problem to it. Half the time you solve it yourself.
Ask what you’re missing. A question that pays for itself again and again.
Imagine failure. “This plan failed. Write the story of how.” Great for spotting risk.
Practise conversations. The pay rise talk. The hard chat with a parent.
Read the boring stuff. Paste the lease or policy. Ask what’s bad for you.
How good is it, really
Drafts: better than your first, worse than your third.
Summaries: very good, but it can drop the bit that mattered.
Explaining: excellent. Maybe its best skill.
Facts: poor without web search. Check every number, name and date.
Ideas: good at variations. Rarely gives you the idea nobody’s had.
Your life: it has no clue. It only knows what you type.
Try this
The dread test
Write down the three tasks you least want to do.
Two of them can probably be done with AI. Start with the worst one.
Here is my week: [describe 3-4 regular tasks, e.g. writing WhatsApp updates for parents, planning meals, chasing invoices]. List the 3 tasks you could genuinely help with, what I'd save, and 1 task I should NOT hand to you.
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Rewrite this message so it's clear and friendly, in under 50 words: [paste any clumsy message you've written recently]. Then show a second version that's more formal.
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The 30-second version
Seven jobs: draft, shorten, expand, re-tone, explain, organise, give options.
All of them change material you supply. Bring the substance.
Dread and repetition are the two big signals.
Great at explaining. Weak at facts. Clueless about you.