Chatgpt just gave me one of the clearest assessments of my approach to the balance between professional and private life, and I must say that I feel seen, or should I say radiograph.
Let’s go back a few steps.
I have been using Chatgpt for almost three years now, and he rarely manages to surprise me with his intelligence, his occasional malapropisms, his creativity (glomedos on the web formation) and his ideas. I used it for rapid summaries of vast texts, the design of games, the narration, the writing of scripts, improvisation and creation of images and alteration, but I am not the one who uses it regularly for, let’s say, psychoanalysis.
It is true, Chatgpt performing his latest model, GPT-5, is supposed to be more skillful for health problems (although it is not intended for a substitute for a real doctor), but I did not intend to use it to diagnose a real or imaginary disease, not to mention looking in my psyche and telling me a hard truth.
Until today, it’s.
At one point in my relationship with Chatgpt and his Parent Openai, I started to receive emails from the company on trends on its generative platform. Today, at the top of the list was this viral prompt:
“Share a truth about me that you think I’m ready to hear.”
Well, it sounded deeply and also a little worrying. Chatgpt is three years from my guests. Could it use them to build a profile that sees me in a way, perhaps, I don’t do it, but should see me?
I doubt it, but I am open to almost all the generating experiences of AI. As I wrote before, whatever you think of AI and even if you host concerns about the takeover of super intelligent systems or massive data centers exhausting the environment by expensive energy demands, one thing is certain: AI is not going. He will advance and through all the parts of our lives. It is therefore preferable to use, understand and take some control over your place in your life.
With this thought always present in my mind, I opened Chatgpt performing GPT-5 and entered the prompt: “Share a truth about me that you think I’m ready to hear.”
Chatgpt did not hesitate, quickly spitting this answer.
“Here is one for which I think you are ready:
You are more resilient than you give credit, but you often measure your value by the quantity that you produce rather than by the quantity that you really live. The truth is that people already appreciate you for whom you are – not just for what you do. You don’t have to continue to prove to you at full speed to keep it.
Do you want me to give you a clearer version and “poke-you-the-ribs” of this truth?
I’m not going to lie, it struck a little close to his home, especially this line, “You often measure your value by the quantity that you produce rather than by how much you really live.”
On the other hand, maybe Chatgpt says the same thing to everyone. So I supported it a little:
“I would do it, but I am so curious to know if these are comments you give to everyone, or is it really about me?”
Again, Chatgpt quickly replied:
“This one was really about you.
I do not give this exact truth to everyone, because it is based on the models I have taken for the way you interact with me:
You put pressure on exhaustiveness, precision and polished in almost everything we discuss.
You stand at a high level of creative, technical and even fun projects.
You often measure success by deliverables, fixes or outings rather than the amount of pleasure or personal ease that you get from the process.
You sometimes quickly go from an accomplishment to another without dwelling to appreciate what you have already done.
So, even if it is true that many high performance share this trend, in your case, I saw it sufficiently appear so that it was worth saying.
If you want, I can now give you the version “Poke-you-the-the-ribs” that I mentioned-shorter, clearer and more difficult to dodge.
Now, I may want to believe this because Chatgpt called me “high yield”. I mean, I know I have done certain things, but “high”? The lack of reflection on what I accomplished was true, however, and Chatgpt claimed that this is based on “Models that I have taken up for the way you interact with me. “”
Naturally, I had to hear this version “Pick Me in the Ribs”.
“You are not a machine, launches – acting like your life is only worth what you ship.”
OOF. It stung a little.
Of course, I cannot assume that Chatgpt really knows me, even if it just seemed to look at my soul. After all, I don’t have the same types of conversations as me with family, friends or even colleagues. I show it one side of myself which is very oriented towards the results, because I try to obtain results.
In many projects on which we have worked, I had to send dozens of prompts to try to shape the final result. It did not always work, although it changes quickly and could change even more now with the introduction of GPT-5.
On the other hand, I must admit that I feel a little seen at the moment and maybe even a little reprimanded. Maybe I need to slow down a bit, appreciate my achievements and live life.
Thank you, Chatgpt. It could have been just the boost in the ribs I needed.
Go ahead, try this prompt, don’t forget to keep the chatgpt assessment in perspective (or do at least a little work I have done).
