MUSINGS & IDEAS

Subscribed to One Useful Thing

by | Jul 22, 2025

One Useful Thing

is the name of Ethan Mollick’s substack newsletter.  Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs.

Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/

Check out Ethan’s quick guide to using AI right now here: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide

 

 

Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work

Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work

TQuist has a new site theme.  I'm glad it is done and fresh.  My first order of business was to create a template for Blog posts.  I decided to use ChatGPT to help me navigate the process. My harsh opinion at the end of the process is that it looks better than what I...

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Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work

Using ChatGPT for other, or is it all (?), work

TQuist has a new site theme.  I'm glad it is done and fresh.  My first order of business was to create a template for Blog posts.  I decided to use ChatGPT to help me navigate the process. My harsh opinion at the end of the process is that it looks better than what I...

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Extracting text with manual steps

Extracting text with manual steps

So close, yet so far away? I feel a whiplash effect it seems when ChatGPT amazes me with some esoteric explanation (remember to verify boys and girls), but then gets hung up on what seems like the simplest thing. I was having a conversation with ChatGPT.  I had...

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Save the manuals, always – AppleWorks 6

AppleWorks 6 I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7.  However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018.  I...

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Musings – Prompting, productivity, and context

Prompting, Productivity and Context Finish the following sentence: "Blogging is so ..." and yet here I am. Prompting I've been trying to engage people close to me as to their AI experiences and uses, either professionally or personnally.  I find myself reminding...

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Always clever Google

Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs.  I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task.  The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...

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Comparing LLM responses

LLM Responses compared I thought a nice exercise would be to take a relatively simple prompt and assess how the Closed and Open models currently available compare.  This is the prompt that I used: <PROMPT> I’m taking my daughter to an oral surgeon today to...

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