I used ChatGPT to write my retirement email. It needed some tweaking from sensational BS to engineering speak, but it was good for that task. Never found any significant use for the tool, only tried the free version.

I really like Google AI. This is my biggest use of AI in retirement.
https://www.google.com/search?q=show+me+the+ultimate+7+day+vermont+craft+beer+plan.&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#lfId=ChxjMe

Is anyone applying it in a skilled trade industry setting?

I use claude, gemini, and chatGPT (in general order of preference). They give me a good first pass for investment evaluations and market/sector research.

redsquirrelAG said:

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Is anyone applying it in a skilled trade industry setting?

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I'm sure some small businesses are using it for invoicing and writing bids. Landscapers would be idiots not to use it to create 'after' images to sell their services.

On the job site nobody is asking AI to run their table saw but it wouldn't surprise me to see home inspectors uploading photos and asking about code compliance, etc…

Exactly the response I expected.

And I haven't figured out how to incorporate it yet with my bids they are so different site to site. Thank you.

My firm is too nervous (for good reason) to pull the trigger on another service, but Westlaw requires all attorneys in the firm to have the same level of service.

Two of my partners are in their 70s and not very "tech savvy." Once just got his first cell phone in the last 5 years and just this year, we just recently decided to drop "books." Trying to explain AI to these guys is a challenge. We have young guys here too, so picking technology suitable for all is rough. Unfortunately, I'm the partner here who has to navigate all of this.

Midpage AI is $99 per month per attorney, and it syncs with Claude Cowork. You do not have to have all attorneys on it or at the same level of service. MIdpage does not go to the internet to search the law but has all 50 states' statutes, regulations and case law in its database. For law, that is important because a hallucination could land you in some big trouble.

We could have our entire staff on Cowork and all attorneys with Cowork and Midpage for thousands of dollars less per month than Westlaw only for attorneys. The Enterprise level Cowork is HIPAA and attorney client privilege, etc. compliant.

I have subscriptions to Claude Cowork and Midpage to test it out. We are sticking with Westlaw/Thompson Reuters for now, but the future is already here. Westlaw has AI, but I'd place my bets on these other companies being big time disrupters.

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can you expand on this:

- GPT for P&L analysis (I have to manage 5 of them), gives me executive level insights with a click of the button.


and also... do you trust putting your data into chatgpt?

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If you are part of a company, you should get a paid version of Chat / Claude /Gemini.
And then turn off sharing Info with the platform.

These platforms are getting better at an exponential rate.
If you want to get started, I would suggest https://starthereseries.com/

I detest podcasts, don't have the patience fro them, but these were absolutely worth it.
So you could start here as well:
https://community.youreverydayai.com/c/ppp-v3-beta

These are all small tangible steps, to get you ready for a tech that is going to be as pervasive as the internet and unfortunately a lot more disruptive.

Also, for the first, I assume the poster is uploading his excel spreadsheet or PDF into chatGPT and having Chat analyze it. I have found Claude to be much better with Visualizations, so its worth a try there as well. If you are worried about it, just fake some numbers, but keep the same format, and upload into Claude. it helps, with all these engines to give them context. Who you are, what is your job position, what are you expecting from the engine

Frankly, few CEOs are worth their price. It's like SEC coaches, they get paid a ton based on comparable, but many are not good. Many got there because of politics or being ruthless. Tech was supposed to be the smartest in the room, yet Covid times showed they are as susceptible to group think as olds on Facebook.

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Frankly, few CEOs are worth their price. It's like SEC coaches, they get paid a ton based on comparable, but many are not good. Many got there because of politics or being ruthless. Tech was supposed to be the smartest in the room, yet Covid times showed they are as susceptible to group think as olds on Facebook.

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CEOs fall on a bell curve too. Just like companies.

Buddy of mine's company is trying to replace a common piece of software (on the sales side) with an AI, vibe-coded alternative by their software contract renewal in July. Not a small company, it's around $400MM in revenue. They started gathering requirements this week. I told him to keep me in the loop because out of 4 calls I had this week with people at different companies, it was by far the most aggressive stance.

On every thread is GAag and the retired Product guy just talking AI up, and I get it, it's a wonderful, shiny new thing that is legit revolutionary for anyone working with long-form text (and no concern for tech, data, or workflow debt). But, anyone going all-in on a propriety AI workflow when you don't even know the long-term cost (non-fundraising subsidized cost I mean), is crazy. I have a strong hunch the cost savings and non-plug and play part of your workforce tied to these proprietary workflows isn't going to save much. Right now, OpenAI likely loses $60-80/mo on their $20/mo plan, and this cost doesn't scale, it's variable. So when OpenAI or Anthropic needs to raise $100s of Bns from non-customers and non-partner investors, we'll see how much the supply side can truly handle. I used to cover SK Hynix in banking, and they announced on 1/12, their 2026 data center memory was completely sold. Price per GB of memory is skyrocketing.

This is just getting unbearable and way out over its skis, as someone who uses AI every single day.

OpenAI is desperately trying to slash costs and just shut down their Sora video generator today. Their financials are complete crap.

I made a GPT in chat GPT where I give it a photo of a mexican restaurant menu. All the entrees are often just different combinations of different things like beef or chicken tacos, enchiladas, burritos, etc.

So the GPT takes the photo and spits out an easy to read matrix with entrees on the left and entree items across the top.

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I made a GPT in chat GPT where I give it a photo of a mexican restaurant menu. All the entrees are often just different combinations of different things like beef or chicken tacos, enchiladas, burritos, etc.

So the GPT takes the photo and spits out an easy to read matrix with entrees on the left and entree items across the top.

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Would you share it?

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TexAgs91 said:

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I made a GPT in chat GPT where I give it a photo of a mexican restaurant menu. All the entrees are often just different combinations of different things like beef or chicken tacos, enchiladas, burritos, etc.

So the GPT takes the photo and spits out an easy to read matrix with entrees on the left and entree items across the top.

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Would you share it?

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https://chatgpt.com/g/g-682e20fcb73481918bba85f3bf54123c-mexican-menu-matrix

It's not production level, but let me know how it works

I found solutions for atty/client and work/product privilege and also HIPAA compliance. My firm is going to get Claude Cowork for the three litigators in my office and staff.

Claude Cowork is awesome.

To learn it, organized my downloads folder
So far I've used it to:
1. Create a Kanban board to keep track of my daly tasks
2. Create a Watchlist for all of my porfolios (this is still in work)
3. Create a proposal for a potential S/W client. This client has a support team that is very stretched. They use No AI. They don't even record calls.

I had Claude go over the public documentation , and identify some 30-60-90 day actionable items to get the company started with AI. I used a deeper thinking model (Opus) and it even gave me a list of what the company's competitors are doing from an AI perspective. Needs some tweaking for sure, but I am also using Claude to create an AI chatbot demo for the client.

Kanban board? I need to look into this.

Are you saying that Claude cowork is compliant with all of those?

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Are you saying that Claude cowork is compliant with all of those?

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Claude Teams - won't train on your data.

I use Hathr.ai for HIPAA compliance.

User beware. I think this is the first decision nationwide. It held that a CLIENT'S use of AI was discoverable, even if shared with counsel. The client also used things the attorney told him, so that removed attorney-client privilege and work product protection. I will be warning all my clients going forward.

One of the factors mentioned by the Court was that the version of AI he was using was allowed to train on his inputs and outputs.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.652138/gov.uscourts.nysd.652138.27.0.pdf

Random one but just used HeadshotPro to generate some new headshots.

- Give it three good, well-lit photos (I did this in my office in front of a window on an iPhone).
- You can pick your backgrounds (I just went with some plain ones).
- You can pick your outfit (I just went with plain black t-shirt which is close to what I was wearing anyway)
- It gives you a bunch of photos. Pick the ones you want to keep. I ended up with 26.
- Slight variations among the photos. Like straight on vs slight angle. Slightly different expressions.
- You get credits to make adjustments to the photos you picked. Change background, change outfit, touch up.

It didn't make me look younger, thinner, or prettier. They just look like good headshots. I'll probably use my adjustment credits to more different-colored plain backgrounds of the ones I like best. No need for touchups or anything. I was wearing glasses and had quite a bit of reflection off my lenses in the photo I submitted. Didn't seem to be a problem.

I got the $39 package. Also $29 and $49 options. Very satisfied. Especially because I DO NOT enjoy going to get my photo taken.

Highly recommend.

Selling and buying a house. Dropped the contracts into Chat and it gave me 3 things to negotiate. 1 non-negotiable and 2 nice to haves. The other party agreed to all 3. 30 seconds of work to save potentially many thousands. I think realtors are going to get disrupted.

Let's try this again....


Case Closed

I took a picture of a buddy wearing one of those old timey men's bathing suits and asked grok to make it dance. Did not disappoint and shared it to the boys group chat to much laughter.

I spent a weekend talking to Replit AI about building a game I wanted to build. In the end I got a decent draft, bought a domain from Go daddy, and published the game. I shut it down a few weeks later to no have to pay for it but it was cool to go through the steps.

Can I just say F Anthropic for their bull sheis Good Friday move?

what'd they do?

Banned openclaw effectively.

You can still use OpenClaw but you have to use it with API tokens. Makes sense to me.