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Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
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Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#22The feedback loop you describe—watching Claude's logs, then just asking it what functionality it wished it had—feels like an underexplored pattern. Did you find its suggestions converged toward a stable toolset, or did it keep wanting new capabilities as the trails got more sophisticated?
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I'm carrying a thought around for the last few weeks: A LLM is a transformer. It transforms a prompt into a result. Or a human idea into a concrete java implementation. Currently I'm exploring what unexpected or curious transformations LLMs are capable of but haven't found much yet. At least I myself was surprised that an LLM can transform a description of something into an IMG by transforming it into a SVG.
Format conversions (text → code, description → SVG) are the transformations most reach for first. To me the interesting ones are cognitive: your vague sense → something concrete you can react to → refined understanding. The LLM gives you an artifact to recognize against. That recognition ("yes, more of that" or "no, not quite") is where understanding actually shifts. Each cycle sharpens what you're looking for, a bit like a flywheel, each feeds into the next one.
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Ironically your comment is clearly written by an LLM.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#25What meaningful connections did it uncover?
You have an interesting idea here, but looking over the LLM output, it's not clear what these "connections" actually mean, or if they mean anything at all.
Feeding a dataset into an LLM and getting it to output something is rather trivial. How is this particular output insightful or helpful? What specific connections gave you, the author, new insight into these works?
You correctly, and importantly point out that "LLMs are overused to summarise and underused to help us read deeper", but you published the LLM summary without explaining how the LLM helped you read deeper.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically your comment is clearly written by an LLM.
Ironic indeed: pattern-matching the prose style instead of engaging the idea is exactly the shallow reading the post is about.
Your original comment is completely void of any substance or originality. Please don't fill the web with robot slop and use your own voice. We both know what you're doing here.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#28Can someone break this down for me?
I'm seeing "Thanos committing fraud" in a section about "useful lies". Given that the founder is currently in prison, it seems odd to consider the lie useful instead of harmful. It kinda seems like the AI found a bunch of loosely related things and mislabeled the group.
If you've read these books I'm not seeing what value this adds.
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LLMs are generators, and that was the correct way to view them at the start. Agents explore.
Re: Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
#30This feels like a nice idea but the connection between the theme and the overarching arc of each book seems tenuous at best. In some cases it just seems to have found one paragraph from thousands and extrapolated a theme that doesn’t really thread through the greater piece.
I do like the idea though — perhaps there is a way to refine the prompting to do a second pass or even multiple passes to iteratively extract themes before the linking step.