ChatGPT won the demo. Descript won my Tuesday.

I'm too busy to babysit another app. This is the honest version. My call: keep Descript for the work it's built for, and ChatGPT for the rest. They aren't rivals, they're different tools, and treating them like the same purchase is how people end up paying for both and using neither.

Where Descript shines: it lets you edit audio by editing the transcript. It also overdub fixes a single word without re-recording.

Where ChatGPT shines: it handles almost any writing or coding prompt you throw at it. It also has the biggest app and plugin ecosystem by far.

The catch: big projects get sluggish on a weak machine. And ChatGPT? it will confidently invent a fact if you don't check.

One honest note: the shortcut that saved my evening is where Descript and ChatGPT both still want a human in the loop. I stopped expecting either to be fire-and-forget.