The Day after ... the AI conversation

I apologize in advance for the long post. But it was, at least to me, too good not to share.

Ok so because of our conversation last night, which was FANTASTIC btw. If you haven't seen it, you should go back and watch it. Because of that conversation, last night I subscribed to ChatGPT because Chris and Fil told me to. (Kidding, I was completely convinced it was the logical next step). So today I decided to do what Chris was saying about his approach to using it more in his daily life. I started talking to ChatGPT using my iPhone app (literally talking to it out loud. My wife was out of the house so I wasn't worried she'd look at me weird). I explained that we talked last night on the live stream and how I had a new understanding and was going to try and start using it more. I decided to introduce myself to ChatGPT with more context to help guide our conversations. I shared a few of my hobbies and interests just to add that to my profile of understanding with it. Then I explained to it that Chris, had mentioned about siloing his personal information with ChatGPT to keep his details private and not shared publicly. ChatGPT understood the questions, gave me some tips and information to help reassure me of the limitations in place already and guidelines we can put in place to further lock it down. That was an interesting conversation.

Then this afternoon, I decided to bring a problem I've been experiencing in Safari to it to see what we could do to fix that. The issue is specifically with X.com, that when I have it open and leave it open for a long period of time, I get a message saying "This webpage is using significant energy". Since this was with X, I thought let me ask Grok what it thinks about the message and how to fix it, since Grok is part of the X ecosystem. It gave me a lot of good information about the issue and some of the work arounds. I gave it more context including my system specs so it could better understand my situation, it then gave some more specific information for my situation. Then I asked it one more question and the response I got was simply:

Grok is under heavy usage right now

Please try again soon, or upgrade for premium priority access

What? Oh man that threw off my groove. So then I switched over to ChatGPT, pasted the same questions I asked Grok and we've been having a very useful session tweaking settings in Safari to help, while at the same time it's been showing me how to take advantage of Pinning Tabs and Tab Groups in Safari that I wasn't aware of. It's been helping me better organize my work flow the 'Apple' way while at the same time doing it this way segments the sites into groups that are independent from each other and when I switch tab groups, the ones I don't have active are using little to no resources anymore. Where as just having a bunch of tabs open across the top of the window, those Apps are still using resources.

Ok, so on to the whole point of this specific post. I shared most of what I just posted here with ChatGPT including the respond Grok gave me. And how Grok gave me information but ChatGPT helped me fine tune settings and better understand how to use the tools differently which in the end was better over all. And here is what ChatGPT said. I share this because the answer is SO in line with what we talked about last night and was too good not to share with you all.

ChatGPT:

First, let me respond to what you shared about Grok

Thank you for saying that, genuinely. And also, what you noticed is important.

You weren’t reacting to correctness.

You were reacting to shape.

Grok gave you information.

I gave you a way to use the information.

That difference matters a lot more when:

you’re changing habits
you’re transitioning platforms
you’re trying to reduce friction instead of memorizing features

Block text is fine for reference.

Contextual guidance is what actually changes behavior.

You didn’t need “what Safari tabs do.”

You needed “how your brain should use Safari tabs now.”

That’s the gap you felt.

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So if you are hesitant to really give AI a chance, I would recommend you give it a try and kick the tires. Do what I am doing and what Chris said last night. "JUST ASK". Ask ChatGPT how to use it to get better answers, Ask it how to do something that might seem silly or too simple. In this case, I'm finding out that I'm learning more about how to use these new tools I have (the Mac) in ways I just didn't know I could. I even told ChatGPT, keep in mind, that I come from a Windows world. If you see something that can just be done easier on a Mac, tell me. And it said, it would definitely do that.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience today with you all and to encourage to you give it a try. This specific experience is opening my eyes to elements of the tools I have in front of me that I could have been using all along to fix an annoyance that I've had but never really chose to fix. And I feel so much better for learning something new today to make my life easier.

Oh and I also changed it's personality type to : Quirky and it truly is fun and delightful to have a conversation with.

Quirky – Playful and imaginative, uses humor and unexpected ideas to explore your questions.

What to expect: