When I had a mold problem it was affecting my mind. I couldn’t think straight or focus, so I had ChatGPT make me a step by step plan for dealing with it, and it had it break each step down into nested sub-steps until no step was more than five minutes of effort, then I had it format the plan to copy-paste into workflowy.

It was really helpful. I could have made that plan myself, except that I was fucked up.

I've used it once to suggest a specific term that I'm going to use in my comic. I was utterly incapable of formulating a conventional search query for a search engine so, after endlessly browsing various thesauri, in the end I resorted to asking perplexity ai. Still took a bit and I had to fight it to get it to understand what I was asking but I did eventually find a term that fits. Felt dirty afterwards. Does that count as "productive"?

The only other thing was the title of a book I read 30 years ago and had only vague memory of. So I gave it an approximate description including a plot point I thought I remembered. The first result it gave me wasn't it. But it claimed the plot involved the thing I remembered. I then asked again and the second result actually was the correct book - turns out I had almost completely misremembered the plot point but it still said "yep, this happens in this book". Very weird experience.

Search (with some double checking), rough drafting and frameworks, templates, and scripting.

My physics professor has us compare our answers to physics problems with a LLM's output. Somehow, the AI is even worse at physics then I am, it once simplified (4pi2) to 4.

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Copilot makes for a great autocomplete while programming. Saves me a ton of typing.

GitHub Copilot for fancy find and replace at work (rewriting a database migration from the old schema to the new schema). I pasted in the old migration, started the pattern and the AI finished for me.