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HomeWritingPerspectiveI saw my ChatGPT year in review. I was absolutely gobsmacked.

I saw my ChatGPT year in review. I was absolutely gobsmacked.

26 December 2025•3 min read
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ChatGPT year in review showing 170.4K messages sent, 2,709 chats, top 0.1% of users

170,000 messages. 2,700 conversations. Top 0.1% of users.

I saw those numbers and thought, holy sh*t.

That's someone who rethought the same idea forty times and argued with a robot about whether it was even worth building.

2,700 conversations. That's 2,700 times I rage-quit the last chat and started over. "Maybe if I explain it differently."

Product ideas. Renovation decisions. Whether I should add cumin or not. Ancient civilisations I got curious about at 1am. Auditing my fitness plan. Reasoning through problems I couldn't figure out on my own.

I turned a chatbot into my entire support system. Cheaper than therapy. Doesn't cancel on me, and doesn't eat my leftovers.

But I didn't believe everything it said. I argued with it. I asked for proof. I asked how it came up with its answers. I made the final call on everything. Because the moment you stop questioning, you're not thinking anymore. You're just copying.

Then they gave me this badge.

ChatGPT badge: Most Likely to Automate Their Own Brain

Most Likely to Automate Their Own Brain.

Half compliment, half roast. Accurate, actually. I look patient. Inside, I've already refactored your argument three times and you're still on version one.

I don't know many people willing to reason through problems for hours outside of business hours. ChatGPT fit the bill. Until I tuned it to be ruthless, with just enough 90s surfer bro tone to keep it human. Brutal, but still cool.

After all that, I can spot AI-generated stuff from a mile away. LinkedIn posts, emails, tweets, Instagram captions, video scripts. No voice. No personality. Just boring text that sounds like soggy cardboard. And if you're using a dating app, don't even think about texting with a ChatGPT message. Especially if you happen to swipe me.

I use AI to assist and proof-read these blog posts too. I'm not above it. But I add my own flair. I argue with it. I rewrite half of what it gives me because it doesn't sound like me or it makes sh*t up. You lose the taste if you don't. You lose you.

So... 170,000 messages. Top 0.1%. Most Likely to Automate Their Own Brain.

I'll take it.

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