I Keep Opening It Before I Fully Trust It

There is something I keep doing that I have not fully resolved.

I open ChatGPT before I have decided how much to trust it.

Not whether it is useful. That part is settled. What I mean is: the workflow around it has not stabilized. I still paste context manually. I still trim what I paste and regret leaving things out. I still verify every answer before it touches anything real. I hold it at arm's length on anything structural.

And I still open it constantly.

That is the honest state of things right now. The usefulness has outrun the comfort. It is useful enough that I keep coming back even though I have not resolved how far to lean on it.

You do not end up here with a tool you trust. You also do not end up here with a tool you are done with. It is somewhere in between, and that place deserves to be named.

The friction right now is not the answers. The answers are fine. The friction is the surface around them. I am still the courier. I bring the problem over, carry the answer back, integrate it by hand. The model handles one part of the loop. Everything else is still on me.

That gap, between how often I reach for this and how settled the process feels, is going to have to close at some point.

I do not know which direction it closes from.

Right now I just know I keep opening it.