My cousin and her husband spent weeks scrolling baby name websites and getting nowhere, mostly because those lists are just alphabetical walls of names with no context for what either of them actually wanted — something that paired well with their last name, wasn't too common in their kid's future kindergarten class, and had a nickname they both liked.
What actually got them somewhere was describing all of that to an AI chatbot at once — their last name, that they wanted something a little uncommon but not strange, that it needed to sound okay with a specific family middle name they'd already decided on, and a couple of names they liked so it could get a feel for their taste — and asking for a shortlist instead of an endless list.
It came back with names they'd actually consider, several they hadn't thought of, and it explained why each one might work with the constraints they'd given it, which saved them from the scroll-forever fatigue of a generic name site that doesn't know anything about their actual situation.
They didn't take any name straight off the list without talking it over together — this is still their decision, obviously — but having a curated starting point built around their actual preferences beat scrolling through five hundred names alphabetically hoping something jumped out.
It's a small, fun use of these tools, but it's a good example of the pattern that keeps showing up: the more specific and real you get about what you actually want, the more useful the answer.
If you want the slow, no-jargon version of all this — the stuff I wish someone had handed me before I fumbled through it myself — that's exactly what I built On Ramp AI for. Check it out here.