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ChatGPT: what it is and what people actually do with it
OpenAI's assistant. Per OpenAI's docs it has Chat, a Work mode for larger tasks that produce reviewable results, and Codex for developer work. This page also counts Operator. source
I have 106 sightings of ChatGPT. Its most common jobs: Productivity (25), Shopping (14), Research & Data (13).
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Productivity · 25 Shopping · 14 Research & Data · 13 Travel & Booking · 12 Email & Inbox · 10 Media & Content · 9 Finance · 5 Personal Assistant · 4
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Cases (106)
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- Win a flight refund dispute · ChatGPT · Travel & Booking
Case study takeaway: through ChatGPT, a person who had booked an IndiGo flight that had been cancelled has claimed that they were able to win a… - Draft a refund demand for an unauthorized renewal · ChatGPT · Shopping
Linked example of draft a refund demand for an unauthorized renewal. After Skillshare charged a $24 annual renewal the poster says they had not… - Rebook after a flight cancellation · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
Real-world thread: after the cancellation Someone activated ChatGPT Work mode and directed it to locate replacement flights, arrange the rental car… - Plan family vacations · ChatGPT · Home & Family
One practitioner notes that utilizes ChatGPT Deep Research to search for destinations, attractions, and trips with detailed family instructions, but… - Track subscriptions and renewals from Gmail · ChatGPT Agent · Email & Inbox
A published walkthrough shows the writer switched on Agent Mode in ChatGPT and gave it access to her Gmail. It searched the inbox for terms like… - Run a business assistant that resumes project work · OpenClaw · Personal Assistant
Documented elsewhere: the poster used a ChatGPT business account tied to OpenClaw on an old Intel MacBook they had turned into a server, after… - Plan a group weekend trip and make reservations · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
One practitioner notes that from his phone he prompted ChatGPT to use his full chat history for a long weekend with 8 friends, generate the three… - Negotiate a lower Comcast bill via chatbot · ChatGPT · Finance
Observed in the wild: doNotPay assembled a bot on the OpenAI GPT-3 API that chats with company support. An engineer typed a request to lower the… - Hotel search with a browser operator agent · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
A reviewer tested OpenAI Operator on multi-step hotel lookups with budget and date constraints, noting shallow results but real form interaction. - Find trending articles and generate LinkedIn post variations · Operator · Shopping
A published walkthrough shows in the tutorial, Operator was asked to create 10 LinkedIn post variations from eCommerce news. It searched Google for… - Fill a supermarket cart · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
One practitioner notes that as someone was at work, groceries were added to the cart at a nearby supermarket in agent mode, ready for collection the… - Everyday errands with a browser agent · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
A designer tested an agent on real chores such as filling a grocery cart and researching purchases, noting where it stalled. - Draft parent-teacher communications · ChatGPT · Home & Family
Linked example of draft parent-teacher communications. The teacher said they first used ChatGPT for lesson outlines, then for weekly comments, then… - Book a private chef and plan a ski holiday · ChatGPT · Travel & Booking
From the linked report, chatGPT received casual spoken instructions while Someone walked the dog. For the chef it located candidates, drafted and… - Book a flight from your phone · ChatGPT · Travel & Booking
Phone in one hand, dog in the other—Tom still got a flight reserved through ChatGPT Work. After a short personal-info quiz, payment happened inside… - Restaurant booking with an allergy note · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
In a usability review, a browser agent researched restaurants, filled the reservation form including an allergy note, and paused for approval. - Generate a spoken daily news bulletin at home · ChatGPT · Personal Assistant
One practitioner notes that the poster Leaned on n8n to run a 6:30 a.m. workflow that asked Perplexity for factual stories from a fixed list of… - Date night planned end to end · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
A writer had an agent pick a restaurant and a movie, choose seats, and stop at payment. - Reconcile orders, draft invoices, and order laptops nightly · ChatGPT · Shopping
From the linked report, chatGPT runs nightly booked prompts that pull completed orders, compare them to CRM entries, create draft invoices in the… - Plan a family trip and pre-fill bookings · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
According to the write-up, the reporter asked ChatGPT Agent to plan a 4-day family trip to San Diego from Newark, with pool hotels and activities… - Play online math games in agent mode · ChatGPT Agent · Finance
Ben Orlin’s Math Games with Bad Drawings, played by GPT-5 agent mode in a sandboxed browser—clicks, moves, visible chain-of-thought. Far less flop… - Write a parking ticket appeal that got dismissed · ChatGPT · Productivity
Observed in the wild: the poster fed ChatGPT-4 the specifics of a $75 street-sweeping ticket, the city sewage project that had pushed parking more… - Turn receipts into CSV for bookkeeping · ChatGPT · Productivity
Observed in the wild: the poster assembled a custom GPT that reads receipt images and returns a CSV you can paste into bookkeeping software. In the… - Run an autonomous employee-like agent for company tasks · Codex · Personal Assistant
Homegrown staffer: Codex brains, ChatGPT Plus login, systemd timer, plain UNIX email for chat. Memory = long rolling window + diary + markdown wiki.… - Find and book a business lunch restaurant · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
Community report: the tester gave a terse prompt asking for a business lunch near a Houston address. The agent ran 10 searches over 96 sources and… - Book weekly restaurants and surface daily discoveries from your data · OpenClaw · Personal Assistant
Your past ChatGPT threads, Google trail, and Instagram likes become fuel for an OpenClaw helper that reserves weekly tables, pings daily… - Book an airport hotel · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
Community report: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about book an airport hotel. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. - Buy items on Amazon from a photo · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
Case study takeaway: the builder photographed a wrapper from an item they wanted again and told ChatGPT Agent to buy a new one on Amazon. The agent… - Cancel Adobe subscription without early termination fee · ChatGPT · Media & Content
Real-world thread: the poster asked ChatGPT to handle Adobe support after both they and ChatGPT could not find a cancel button. In the chat, ChatGPT… - Book a flight end-to-end through an agent · Claude · Travel & Booking
Case study takeaway: user added the Flightclaw MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor afterward signed in with an email code. Asked the agent to book… - Test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping · ChatGPT Agent · Shopping
From the linked report, chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping. The linked post is the primary source for… - Reserve a restaurant table through OpenTable · Operator · Shopping
From the linked report, yash Kumar of OpenAI asked Operator to book Beretta in San Francisco around 7 p.m. Operator opened a remote browser, went to… - Post a word to Pastebin and return the link · Operator · Shopping
Linked example of post a word to Pastebin and return the link. The poster tested OpenAI Operator on several odd browser tasks inside its own web… - Let agents phone restaurants to book tables · ChatGPT · Shopping
A published walkthrough shows jake stood up callforme.tel so agents powered by MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) can place calls. The agent dials the… - Negotiate bills by emailing providers to match competitors · ChatGPT Agent · Email & Inbox
Case study takeaway: in ChatGPT's Work mode with Gmail connected (or three months of statements uploaded), you paste three prompts. The first lists… - Fill out a prescription order form on a clinic site · ChatGPT Agent · Productivity
Community report: one commenter tested agent mode on a clinic’s prescription refill form. They put the medication information into the prompt, and… - Build a self-hosted bookkeeping and finance app · Claude · Finance
According to the write-up, the poster first used ChatGPT for a high-level accounting plan, then had Claude turn it into an implementation plan, and… - Curate a Mubi watchlist from stated criteria · ChatGPT Agent · Productivity
Real-world thread: someone gave ChatGPT Agent a set of film criteria: lesser-known movies from 2015–2025, varied countries and styles, and no… - Use Operator to book tables, compare products and fill forms · Operator · Travel & Booking
Case study takeaway: the poster says they tested ChatGPT Pro’s Operator by giving it tasks on websites such as booking tables, comparing products… - Book appointments by clicking through booking sites · ChatGPT Agent · Travel & Booking
Linked example of book appointments by clicking through booking sites. The post says to start ChatGPT agent mode from the tools or + menu, or by… - Analyze budgets and research investments from bank data · ChatGPT · Finance
One practitioner notes that the poster says they use WisePenny to pipe transaction data from their bank accounts into ChatGPT without handing over… - Research laptops and build a comparison table and deck · ChatGPT Agent · Research & Data
One practitioner notes that in ChatGPT's agent mode, the reviewer asked it to research the best budget laptops, compare specs, and send back a… - Compile and filter apartment listings · Claude · Productivity
According to the write-up, renno Mihalis, 23, had one week to find an apartment in San Francisco after getting a job offer. Rather than powered by a… - Run web research jobs and capture screenshots into a doc · Operator · Research & Data
Observed in the wild: the reviewer paid $200 for ChatGPT Operator and spent a week giving it plain-language browser tasks. These included analyzing… - Review a landlord deposit dispute for legal violations · ChatGPT · Knowledge & Notes
Real-world thread: the tenant fed their move-out dispute into ChatGPT and Gemini, powered by the two models to cross-check each other, suggest… - Grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers · ChatGPT · Research & Data
Linked example of grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers. The builder assembled a proof-of-concept app called Archimedes, described as a… - Assemble an immigration document package · ChatGPT Agent · Finance
Seven years of tax returns, bank PDFs, and immigration paperwork—pulled via ChatGPT browser sessions into a single packet in minutes. The post stops… - Draft lesson plans and school paperwork for teachers · ChatGPT · Research & Data
Real-world thread: a teacher used ChatGPT as an administrative assistant for lesson sequences, reflections, PowerPoints, programs, assessment… - Generate LEGO CAD models in LDraw · ChatGPT · Shopping
Documented elsewhere: the creation of LDraw source files, which are then converted into LEGO CAD models, is facilitated by ChatGPT and Claude agents… - Create a presentation on AI career and salary trends · ChatGPT Agent · Media & Content
Observed in the wild: in agent mode, the tester gave ChatGPT Agent a detailed prompt for a 10-15 slide PowerPoint on career and salary growth in… - Source recruiting candidates on LinkedIn and build valuation models · ChatGPT Agent · Media & Content
Stopwatch demo: ~17 minutes covering (a) LinkedIn → spreadsheet of Bangalore YouTube-manager prospects and (b) a separate Excel valuation sheet… - Negotiate a TV price with a retailer's chat · ChatGPT Agent · Productivity
Observed in the wild: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about negotiate a TV price with a retailer's chat, with figures like 939. The linked post… - Find cheapest nonstop flights on Google Flights · ChatGPT Agent · Productivity
Real-world thread: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about find cheapest nonstop flights on Google Flights, with figures like 4, 10, 737. The… - Search venue sites for concerts to attend · Operator · Email & Inbox
Community report: the builder asked Operator, which runs ChatGPT in its own virtual machine with a browser, to check Berlin venue websites for… - Do taxes by selecting the right invoices · ChatGPT Agent · Productivity
Linked example of do taxes by selecting the right invoices. The poster used ChatGPT’s Agent tool to help with quarterly Xero reconciliation for a… - Let AI models trade stocks autonomously with $1k each · Gemini · Productivity
Linked example of let AI models trade stocks autonomously with $1k each. The poster set up four paper-trading portfolios with $1,000 each on Alpaca… - Give an AI its own inbox to act as personal assistant · ChatGPT · Email & Inbox
From the linked report, the poster connected two mail accounts to ChatGPT: a dedicated Outlook inbox for the AI and their personal Gmail separately.… - Find web design prospects · ChatGPT · Media & Content
As described in the source, chatGPT shows up in a write-up about find web design prospects. The linked post is the primary source for steps and… - Let AI agents search a store, build carts, and prep checkout · Claude · Shopping
Documented elsewhere: the post is a pitch rather than a walkthrough: The builder says they can make ecommerce sites “agentic commerce ready” so… - Compile an annotated bibliography and draft a paper · ChatGPT Agent · Research & Data
ChatGPT Agent covered compile an annotated bibliography and draft a paper. The builder gave ChatGPT Agent a single /agent prompt asking for…
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