The Best Way to Use ChatGPT to Your Advantage

ChatGPT 🤖 probably already knows more than you. Use this to your advantage (in a healthy way):

An AI today has a breadth of knowledge and a range of information access that’s hard for a human to match. Just as humans will never beat artificial intelligence in chess, we may also never know as much as an AI.

But just as humans didn’t stop playing chess, this doesn’t mean we’ll stop working or that we can’t use ChatGPT to our advantage.

A practical example

To illustrate, here’s an example of how we can use AI to help us and increase the added value of our work:

Let’s say you’re integrating an email-sending API for the first time. You studied the documentation and already know you need:

• an API key


• an email template


• variables for each email

However, there may be things you haven’t anticipated that could go wrong. The AI, on the other hand, has broad knowledge of common implementation pitfalls. That’s why I’ve recently been using this prompt to predict cases I might not have considered:

What technical, performance, and security issues might I face when integrating an email-sending API in a production environment with real user needs? How can I ensure reliability, efficiency, and compliance over time?

You can replace “an email-sending API” with whatever you need.

Here are two points from the response it gave me:

• Daily limits: Some services may include a daily limit, for example, 100 emails per day.


• Deliverability: Emails landing in spam, affecting the user experience.

The takeaway here is not to see AI as a competitor, but as a tool to enhance your daily work. After all, learning from it is an intelligent way to boost what you already know and deliver even better work.

Pay attention to what you are doing

The most IMPORTANT thing of all is to remember:

💡Always make sure you understand what ChatGPT has responded to. Don’t follow what it’s saying without understanding. This is how you’ll learn while using AI to your advantage.

Don’t outsource your brain for AI to do everything for you, as it may soon be easier to talk directly to the AI than to ask you to do something.

Give your opinion

Do you have more tips on using AI in a useful and healthy way in daily life?

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