This is a valid question…
…in other words, is Chat GPT just a fancy tool that doesn’t really help or does it actually help make some things better, faster, and cheaper.
I don’t want to go with just my gut feeling, so I looked around for some good data on this…
And I found this MIT study on Chat GTP and productivity.
TLDR: For white collar (AKA knowledge worker) jobs, those that used Chat GPT were significantly more productive.
I’ve seen other, more anecdotal, cases where it seems likely that Chat GPT made something much faster, easier to do, or got a better result.
I think the results in the study make a lot of sense.
At the same time, like any useful tool, there are inefficient ways to use it that will be wasteful.
Tip: What I do every day to try to capture this extra productivity: Mark up daily task sets with blue triangle on my paper to do list for the day if I think Chat GPT could potentially help with that task set.