At work
The pile gets smaller. Your name stays on the decisions.
The honest win at work is boring and large: first drafts, summaries, meeting notes, the email you have rewritten three times. AI does those well and fast. It does not know your customers, your history, or what you can promise, so the judgement stays yours.
One thing it is not: a place to paste anything confidential. Assume anything you type could be read by someone else, and check what your employer allows before you start.
What do you want help with?
Each one is a real thing, done in about the time it says, with the prompt written for you.
Your tools
4, not forty. Each one is here for a reason.
Claude
free planLong documents, careful tone, and it follows an instruction like "do not add anything" without drifting.
Open Claude ↗ChatGPT
free planThe general one. Drafts, rewrites, plans, and it is probably already allowed where you work.
Open ChatGPT ↗Watch out for
- •Do not paste customer data, contracts, salaries, or anything marked confidential unless your employer has approved that tool. Many keep a list.
- •AI meeting notes are a recording. Tell people, and know your company's rule on it.
- •It will write a confident summary of a document it misread. Skim the source before you forward the summary.