AI AI AI: Confessions of a Top 10% User – Fails & Wins

ChatGPT generated a “Your Year with ChatGPT” summary of 2025, similar to the Spotify Wrapped end of year fun. Here's what mine shared:

I'm in the first 10% of users and the top 10% of messages sent.

I had a total of 216 individual chats. (I organize my chats by topic/audience so I use the same chat always for similar content).

My favorite way to use AI is to brainstorm. Second favorite is to catalogue the random ideas that pop in to my head. Pro tip – use the conversation mode for this.

Here's where AI repeatedly fails me: tech support.

I don’t know if its because how-to’s for every version, both old and new, of every program still live on the internet, but when I used it to help me set up a shared inbox in my Google workspace and when I use it to help me set up formula fields in Airtable, it failed me and wasted my time.

Another way it fails me is with any kind of image generation.

Whether it's a promotional graphic where words aren't real words or a photo of me in a specific scene where my face is not at all me…

See this AI image of me as a cheerleader for the FPMA SAM conference as a prime example of failure.

I did receive the “Most Lifely to Turn a Trade Show into a TED Talk” award from ChatGPT:

For making exhibitor booths feel like masterclasses, sponsor decks sound like manifestos, and podiatry marketing way too interesting for LinkedIn.

According to my year in review, my big themes are:

Rebuilding and Redefining my Business. From refining PodiatryMeetings.com’s identity to relaunching a brand new site and developing a more creative Sponsorship Program for my advertisers, AI helped me outline my vision.

Personal Growth. I used AI to summarize and organize all of my purchases and expenses in 2025 using my bank statements and Amazon order history so I can be more aware of my spending habits and patterns. It helped me outline my professional goals and figure out processes for delegation. And it helped me get clarity while writing a new life chapter for myself and my three children.

My ChatGPT Archetype [wtf is an archetype?!] is:

The Navigator. Explorer, Planner, Practical. Quickly orients in new areas and charts next steps. Uses ChatGPT to decide what to do next without overanalyzing.

Forecast for 2026: “Your ability to mix business with genuine warmth will open new doors again.”

Thanks Chat. Love ya.

-Annie