Ford executive swaps Claude for ChatGPT as family assistant
A Ford executive has transitioned her family's AI assistant from Claude to ChatGPT, citing better interface and functionality for managing household tasks. The process involved porting documented workflows to ensure continuity in managing family schedules and chores.
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Three months ago, a custom Claude assistant named Claudette was credited with saving a marriage. Now she's on a performance improvement plan, and a ChatGPT-built rival has taken over the family calendar.
Whitney Stefko Dover, an executive and senior counsel for Ford, created Claudette to collate their family’s emails and calendar to create a morning brief at 4am entitled "Daily Dover" that organised all from their children’s school schedules to domestic duties.
Dover has since created a new assistant in ChatGPT Work named Gigi, motivated not only by her husband's longstanding use of OpenAI but also by an August Substack piece written by venture capital firm a16z.
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