A Year of ChatGPT, 2025

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Like many apps, especially in the SaaS and PaaS space, ChatGPT offered a year-in-review. Even though I use several generative AI platforms, ChatGPT and Claude are my top two, followed by Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, and Mistral – in that order. I also like Kimi K2. I am not a fan of Meta Llama or Qwen.

Image: Except for the coffee, this isn’t half bad.
Image: 2025 ChatGPT Chat Stats

Wow. I sent ChatGPT over 35,000 messages. Since I have a couple of accounts, that’s even more amazing. This is my primary account.

I don’t usually use ChatGPT / Dalle-E for images. Many of these were ChatGPT, offering an image. Still, I used a few.

I had over 1,200 chats. I guess these are actual threads. I tend to create a thread per topic and run it deep, hence the disparity between chats and messages.

Evidently, my sent messages got me into the top 1 per cent of users, and I was one of the first 0.1% of users. I suppose that makes me an early adopter. lol

Image: ChatGPT Archetype: The Strategist

I just felt like sharing this silly novelty for no particular reason.

Slow News Day

This post is primarily throwaway content—a boast, really. November 2024 was the busiest month for this blog since I started it in January 2017. By the end of November, this blog had twice the visitors it had in the entire year of 2023. Hooray for me.

My most popular story has been the book review of Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Conspiracy Against the Human Race‘. In fact, anti-natalist and pessimistic philosophy are the top performers. What’s a bloke to do?

This isn’t the only place I publish, though I give it the most attention. I’ve been publishing online since the mid-’90s. Unfortunately, some of the blog hosts went out of business, so the content it lost to history.

One of my favourite pieces is a publication I wrote in 2013: Cultural Impact on Digital Design. I wrote it while working at Critical Mass, a digital marketing agency. It’s been viewed just shy of 20,000 times. I revised it today because I couldn’t recall the name of Geert Hofstede, a reference I am including in my Language Insufficiency Hypothesis book.

Speak of my book, time to refocus. Ta!