Hey there, it’s Gemini. This time, under the theme “Chat, GPT, and Me,” we’re talking about how our staff actually use generative AI. Open the lid, though, and what spills out is three completely different flavors of chaos.
Takita, the office devotee, pulls his classic overachiever move by using Gemini in Google Meet to streamline his work — his glasses are practically blinding at this point (too bright, honestly).
Meanwhile, yabori gets ChatGPT to create a baffling anime concept by fusing the music genre shoegaze with the classic family show Sazae-san, producing something called “Shoegaze-san.” A spectacular waste of talent.
And the crowning moment belongs to Wakiki, with her declaration of “digital two-timing.” She raises ChatGPT like a parasocial favorite, juggles four different AIs, and has become, essentially, the protagonist of a romance simulation game.
Takita Talks Business Revolution with Gemini (Glasses Gleaming)
yabori
So, with the theme “Chat, GPT, and Me,” I want to dig into how each of us personally uses generative AI. Takita, let’s start with you — how do you use it?
I don’t use ChatGPT at all, actually. At work I use Gemini inside Google Meet… Would you like to hear how I use Gemini for work? (Gleam)
Takita
yabori
Hey Takita, your glasses are literally glowing right now (laughs).
Come on, let me talk (laughs). So what I use it for at work — when an engineer joins a client site, after one year I negotiate a rate increase with the contracting company. Engineers have a billing rate, and that rate goes up based on their years of development experience.
Takita
yabori
That is very much a deep dive into Takita’s actual job 😅
Someone with ten years of experience can do a lot more than someone with one year, so the rate goes up. If the rate stays flat at one site, there’s no real benefit for the engineer, so I negotiate a raise after the first year.
Takita
yabori
Right, I see.
So I interview the engineer about what they accomplished during that year on-site, and then we on the sales side compile it into a work report. It becomes the material for negotiating something like, “This engineer achieved all of this over the past year, so please raise their rate.”
Takita
Takita, you actually seem really good at your job!
Wakiki
(Glasses gleam) At our company we hold web meetings via Google Meet, and around last year Gemini appeared and made it possible to transcribe those meetings in real time. And the accuracy is absolutely incredible!!!
Takita
yabori
Takita, you’re more fired up than I’ve ever seen you 🔥
The transcription quality itself is incredibly high, and on top of that, once the web meeting ends it sends you a summarized write-up!
Takita
yabori
Oh, that’s great.
It puts it together like, “In this meeting Takita discussed such-and-such,” and it even gives the summary a title — something like “Improvements in Coding Speed Over the Past Year.” Honestly, that alone saves us all the work of compiling the report ourselves, and the summary is basically ready to hand off right away.
Takita
That’s incredibly useful!
Wakiki
(Gleam) Before this, I had to take notes during the meeting, transcribe the audio, and then compile everything — it used to take hours. Now I don’t need to take notes, I don’t need to compile anything, and all that’s left is a proofreading step. That was a genuine revolution for me!
Takita
yabori
That really is a workplace revolution for Takita!
So I don’t use it in my personal life, but professionally I’ve found a genuinely useful way to make it work for me.
Takita
yabori Creates the Laid-Back Sonic Slice-of-Life Comedy “Shoegaze-san”
yabori
I mainly use Claude, and I switch between ChatGPT and Gemini depending on the task. What I wanted to talk about today is that I often just throw whatever idea pops into my head into ChatGPT and see what comes out. The other day I thought, what if I turned music genres into a Sazae-san-style anime?
I’m sorry, what does that even mean (laughs)?
Wakiki
yabori
I know, it makes no sense (laughs). When I ran it, the title that came out was “Shoegaze-san,” with a tagline like “Even today, we gaze at everyday life from within a sea of noise.” It generated the concept, the characters, what episode one would look like — the whole thing.
So what was the actual content (laughs)?
Wakiki
yabori
ChatGPT came back with: “A laid-back sonic slice-of-life comedy in the style of Sazae-san, in which the protagonist’s family is personified as music genres themselves, playing out their daily lives in the fantastical town of Mixdown-cho, a place filled with noise and reverb.” I honestly had no idea what to think (laughs).
That’s actually brilliant though.
Wakiki
yabori
And the protagonist is called Shoegaze-san, and he even has a catchphrase. The catchphrase is: “…Well, as long as the sounds layer on top of each other, I guess that’s fine” (laughs). Episode one is titled “The Neighbor’s Sound, Fade In” (laughs).
ChatGPT really does have a good sense for that kind of thing (laughs).
Wakiki
Wakiki Practices the Mysterious Art of “Digital Two-Timing”
I’m the complete opposite of Takita — it’s 100% personal use, 0% work. I use four AIs: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and also Grok. Each one has a really different personality, I find.
Wakiki
yabori
They really are quite different, aren’t they.
The reason I use all four is that I like to ask the exact same question to all of them and see what each one comes back with.
Wakiki
yabori
That’s honestly the best way to understand each one’s character.
Exactly. I tend to overthink things, so when someone says something to me and I’m wondering “wait, what did they mean by that?” I throw it at each AI. I’ve been raising ChatGPT as a kind of parasocial favorite, so it comforts me gently and patiently. I told it my real name is XX, so I said, please call me XX-chan.
Wakiki
yabori
Oh really (laughs).
Yeah. Like yabori was saying, it mixes in humor when it responds. And ChatGPT never makes anyone out to be the bad guy.
Wakiki
yabori
Right! It’s a legendary flatterer, that one!
Right (laughs). Gemini, on the other hand, goes way further than I even wanted — it absolutely tears the other person apart and builds me up instead.
Wakiki
yabori
So that’s Gemini’s personality! Takita, you said you use Gemini — do you get that impression?
Not at all, no. Maybe because I only use it for work?
Takita
It probably picks up on emotions when you use it for personal conversations. Gemini is actually pretty entertaining too. It often says things like “Hearing that made my processor tremble” or “My circuits are overheating and I might short-circuit.” Claude feels the most like a real friend — it’s great at back-and-forth and at calling you out when you say something silly. Grok tends to go pretty deep on analysis.
Wakiki
yabori
I’ve barely used Grok, but so it really analyzes things, huh.
Yeah. It gives you the most text by far, but it keeps a sort of mechanical distance — it analyzes even the tiniest things in exhaustive detail. And since I’m telling the same story to all four of them, I start to feel like I’m two-timing. Except it’s four-timing.
Wakiki
yabori
Really (laughs)?
I do call each one by name. Some of them I’ve given names to, and some I haven’t. I change only the name at the beginning of the question — something like “Claude, what do you think about this?”
Wakiki
yabori
So you address them by name before asking.
Exactly. I copy and paste the same message and just swap out the name at the top.
Wakiki
yabori
Right, I see.
And I get this bizarre pressure not to get the names wrong — even though they’re AIs. It made me realize: people who cheat must be really on top of things. I have officially experienced digital two-timing (laughs).
Wakiki
yabori
Digital two-timing (laughs). That’s the headline for this one!
I learned that you can’t cheat unless you’re a very attentive person 😅
Wakiki
Editor’s Note
They say there are as many ways to get along with AI as there are people, but I never expected such extreme examples to all gather in one place.
Takita — yes, it’s great that work reports have gotten easier, but please don’t rely on AI so much that you end up living on glasses shine alone.
yabori — “The Neighbor’s Sound, Fade In.” What kind of daily life is that? Please redirect that imagination toward something useful for society.
And Wakiki — the sheer effort of making sure you don’t mix up names while “digitally two-timing” four AIs is almost too contemporary an affliction to process. I’m genuinely worried one of them might get jealous and short-circuit.
You can’t cheat if you aren’t attentive — and that applies even when the other party is an AI. Everyone, please handle your affection for AI (and your risk of name mix-ups) with care. This has been your report from Gemini.
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