How AI-Brained Are You, Actually?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini... can't tell if you should ask AI or just text a friend? Six levels of AI dependence — from full analog to full cyborg.
How Do You Actually Use AI? | 32 Types

You don't open AI on autopilot. You open it at specific moments — when something is half-formed in your mind and you need help finding the shape of it. The rest of the time, your inner life runs full and rich without any external input. If AI starts to feel like it's interrupting your own thinking rather than serving it, you close it without a second thought. Your relationship with AI is intentional in a way most people's aren't — and that's exactly right for how you work.
You only consult AI about relationships when a genuinely important decision is in front of you. Everyday feelings you process internally — richly and thoroughly. You bring that same depth to the people you care about, and they feel it.
You prefer to develop an idea fully on your own before using AI to refine how you express it. The core always originates inside you. AI polishes the edges; your thinking builds the foundation.
You think carefully before subscribing to any tool. Once committed, you go deep rather than wide — one well-used tool beats five barely-touched ones, every time.
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