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Who uses, recommends or left ChatGPT, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Bryan Caplan
Professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the Bet On It newsletter.
liked

Here’s me talking to ChatGPT. Big picture: I struggle to imagine a better conversation with a human being on this topic.

Caplan revisits a long-standing challenge to historians about the factual reliability of Paul Johnson's Modern Times, using a ChatGPT conversation.

2026-08-19·betonit.ai ↗

Ethan Mollick
Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who studies AI and innovation; writes the One Useful Thing newsletter.
liked

currently has the best Live Mode in its Advanced Voice Mode. The other big advantage of ChatGPT is that it does everything, often in somewhat confusing ways

An earlier edition of his opinionated guide to choosing an AI assistant; he notes he takes no money from AI labs.

2025-01-26·oneusefulthing.org ↗

Ethan Mollick
Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who studies AI and innovation; writes the One Useful Thing newsletter.
recommended

So, for most people, just stick with Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT

His periodic guide to which AI system a general reader should pick and how to use it.

2025-06-23·oneusefulthing.org ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
recommended

1 founder who's also developer, designer, marketing (use ChatGPT to help with those)

Listing the pieces of a fully automated one-person software business.

2024-11-22·levels.io ↗

Arvid Kahl
Software entrepreneur who sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
uses

This includes platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. These are my go-to for brainstorming, writing, problem-solving, and even some coding tasks.

A long post walking through how he actually uses large language models day to day as a solo software founder.

2024-09-20·thebootstrappedfounder.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.