August 8, 2025

The REAL benefit of ChatGPT Agent Mode

Today, I used agent mode in ChatGPT for the first time.

It turned out to be extremely helpful, but not in the way that I expected.

Here’s what happened...

For agent mode to work, you have to give it a detailed SOP of what you want it to do.

This was actually quite a lot of work because the thing I wanted to do was somewhat complicated.

Once I was done detailing the series of steps to complete the task, ChatGPT went off and tried to accomplish it.

After about 10 minutes of watching it sloooowly work its way through the task, I realized that by following my own checklist, I could manually complete the task about 10x faster than I had ever done it previously.

And probably a hundred times faster than ChatGPT was doing it.

Here’s the thing...

AI might be amazing for a lot of things, but you know what’s a totally underutilized old school kick-ass technology?

Thinking something through and creating a checklist for it.

You really can’t avoid it, so you might as well embrace it.

Yours,

—J

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