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I’ve been testing out different generative AI tools recently, and I’m wondering what kinds of real, everyday use cases people here have found most useful. Not just flashy demos — I mean the tools that quietly save you hours or help you polish something faster.

For example, I used a face swap tool to quickly generate a few visual variations for a social media campaign — it helped A/B test reactions without needing a full reshoot or multiple actors. It was surprisingly efficient for such a niche task.

What are some tools or workflows you’ve adopted that genuinely helped in your creative, research, or technical work?

nbro
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I find these tools useful for tasks, for which I know or have an idea of the correct answer or solution, or to get an initial overview of some concept, which, if necessary, I can double-check with another source. I think these tools are still not reliable enough, so we can't blindly trust them. However, to be fair, we probably shouldn't also blindly trust many other online sources. The big difference is AI tends to make up stuff more and doesn't think like a human.

More specifically, I use Gemini Advanced almost everyday for

  • code/concept explanations
  • simple code writing

usually, when I have an idea of the correct answer or solution.

It has saved me some time because writing code, even though it's just a few lines and it's very simple, takes time and usually more time than a code review.

There might be other successful use cases or tools. Some people might have used them for tasks like image generation. There has been some hype around the last OpenAI model, which is also able to generate images and very good ones in some cases, but I also found that it still struggles with problems that have been around since the generative AI hype started a few years ago, e.g. fingers. There are many tools and people try to take advantage of the hype to do some business and get some cash.

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  • It tends to be pretty good at documenting functions.
  • I pass a lot of my important writing through one or more and ask it for unclear points. I tend to take for granted what isn’t obvious so this helps a lot.
  • I will use it to start a search I don’t feel like I have the right terms for. I can explain what I’m looking for in layman terms and see if it recognizes what I’m talking about. Sometimes it gives me one or more correct terms to start my search.
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Many companies are providing Copilot+ along with Microsoft Office 365 that is used daily by everybody. Outlook, Teams, PPT, Word all can use Copilot+ and increase our productivity. Summarizing email threads, word documents, creating rough PPTs, replying to teams messages, all can be done using this feature.

Many companies are also providing GitHub Copilot license which can be used along with any editor, GUI like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio GUI, vim to help with coding. It is a coding via chatting kind of experience, which again enhances productivity.

Companies are encouraging every employee to use these tools on a daily basis.

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