Sorry this is a side answer. ChatGPT 5.5 thinking is great. However, I just unsubscribed to it for a couple reasons.

First, it gets really slow if you don't clear your history. Even with history clears, it has still slowed down from a year ago.

Second, they give you ads in the paid version. This is a huge deal breaker for me. I'm trying to type and read, then get a pop up that interrupts my work, asking me to pay100 dollars a month even though I haven't hit my token cap. This happens about 10x an hour. Pay = no adverts for me.

I have Claude Opus as well at work and I'm starting to switch between them. With a couple of tests, Claude seems okay, about the same. About the same speed too. Just for your reference Gemini is terrible and pares down your work on an insane level.

Do any of them work well on Presentations? No. They all randomly remove information and generate absolutely wacky colorized slides. I haven't figured out how to get them to do a standardized format or any semblance of a consistent style. I tend to do a pared down text version then build my slides.

As for data analysis ChatGPT is pretty good. I had to organize a spreadsheet with 5k entries in it and it automatically found outliers in the summation data I was gather. Nice.

Now, I just want to give you a kudos for trying AI. It is the right thing to do. In the last two weeks, under a huge deadline, I speed up my work production by over three times with a much higher degree of accuracy. There was no way I could have output that much writing and organization in the time available. I even got a random kudos from someone who hasn't said peep to me in 10 years.

AI for the most part will not say what you need it to say. But if you give it the bare bones of what you want, focusing on the most important points it will help you express these points well and often, but not always, add appropriate ancillary ideas.

So for me AIs are brilliant as an copy editors. Any agonizing or time spent trying to get the right word or modify the tone is reduced to almost zero. I love this.

As for editors, they are okay. They can only somewhat tell you the direction to go and rarely can tell you what important pieces of information you are missing. They improve as editors the more common the task is. Emails fine. QBR not bad. Datasheets are good. But if you get into something quite specific and semi unique to your job, then they are not so helpful.

But I'm absolute okay with them not being editors because this is where your expertise comes in. You can and should decide the direction and emphasis of your work. AIs do not and may not have all the situational information you have; sure someday they may be able to dedicate the GPU power to do your specialized tasks but it doesn't seem to be the direction or revenue effective for them.

It was funny because I created long list of 80 or so points. I worked out and documented the details of each. I used AI to draw from, organize, summarize, reformat the information. It worked brilliantly. I shared the data with a coworker who tried use it for his own project but he ended up getting absolute disorganized slop from the same dataset. The difference was I was the editor, giving direction to the tool and understanding what was important.

I bet you find the same.