In this video, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series "How I Use Chat-GPT". They discuss Nathan's prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.

Watch the rest of the series, "How I Use ChatGPT", here: https://www.youtube.com/@EveryInc

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) - Episode Preview

(00:03:57) - Copilot vs delegation mode

(00:11:06) - ChatGPT for coding

(00:14:29) - Building a prompt coach

(00:28:22) - Best practices for using Chat-GPT

(00:43:55) - The “dance” between you and AI

(00:50:16) - Using GPT as a thought partner

(00:52:07) - Using GPT for diagrams

(01:03:18) - Using Perplexity instead of a search engine

(01:12:00) - What's ahead for AI

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