[Patrick]

Is anyone using AI to automate/optimize any part of their personal/financial life? Thinking custom GPTs to help optimize credit card usage, identify the best way to leverage points/miles, etc.

I’m using AI extensively in my day-to-day work tasks, but have been slower to integrate into my personal life.

Curious to hear what folks are building!

[Susie]

Pretty much everything. Negotiating. Formatting. How to have a tricky conversation. Built my personal website in an hour (I’m already a developer).

Using it as an art journal. Coming up with a script for my annual dr appt and how to make sure she’s addressed my concerns. Coming up with template emails.

Ask it what finance things it can automate for you. Building daily affirmations around FI.

Ask it to make hyper-specific playlists. Meal plan. Ask it the benefits of doing something. Ask it the downsides of doing something.

[Stephanie]

No. I gave up trying to optimize everything years ago. Life is simpler and more enjoyable once I started embracing the concept that perfect is the enemy of good.

[Cris]

I live nomadic and it’s been helpful in narrowing down and determining communities to live in next based on my criteria.

[Karen]

I have used it to brainstorm ideas for side hustles, as well as write heartfelt sympathy notes.

[Blan]

The big limiting factor now is the lack of access by both individuals and companies to private data.

Once they figure it out, it will really be a lot more useful in terms of doing all the annoying admin, like retention calls and health insurance claims and rebooking airplane tickets etc.

[Eric]

Nope. It still gets many things wrong or simply makes stuff up. Ultimately, AI is a multitude of corporate products that will be used to make money off of us.

[Jennine]

I’m a parent of young kids so I use it in ways to help me limit decision fatigue when I can. It’s nice getting a little mental break but I usually forget to use it.

Sometimes just for quick meal ideas. I might put in a list of what ingredients I have and ask it to come up with a meal or I’ve heard of people feeding it their regular go-to dinners and asking it to come up with a meal plan and shopping list.

You can ask for ideas on kid’s activities and projects using common household items, ideas of things to do locally, etc.

For my husband’s recent job change, updating the resume and providing a cover letter was a formality so we made a list of job duties and had it update them and then we rewrote it.

If it was a new job we probably would have put more effort into it.

I’m in the process of reporting a doctor to the department of health so I’m using more energy to accumulate all of the information in a timeline and then will probably have AI help to clean it up.

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