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A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by nottorp »

darepublic wrote: post #27
nottorp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> which I find to be revolutionary and useful - there is no value in that report :) I went through some Claude documentation that apparently came with my job's paid subscription. Besides some vague description of how to use the API, it was just fluff. For example there were exactly zero hints on how to do your prompts.

How people prompt and the output that ensues is valuable data. So they would probably want variety as a free live experiment.

So a paid product that comes with no documentation, basically.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by MisterTea »

Retr0id wrote: post #26
ventana wrote: post #23

I just feel that any attempt of a service I use to summarize and analyze my interactions with it, whether it's the AI tool usage patterns or the music I listened to the most over the past year, makes me feel creepy and makes me want to use the service less. Imagine if your local grocery store came back to you saying that you ate this many chocolate bars over the year. Thanks, I know that you know that, but I don't wa…

I feel this way too except for the music one. The whole reason I use spotify is because I want their algorithm to figure out what music I like.

> ... figure out what music I like.

Isn't that something you determine yourself? I listen to a lot of heavy metal because I like it. I also wander around bandcamp and find stuff that isn't heavy metal, but enjoyable, so I buy it. My brain is my algorithm.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by empath75 »

I think there's a germ of a good idea here, but really this needs to be data that is presented in a way that encourages human thought and interpretation and not something claude predigests and interprets _for_ you. I found the whole tone as it's executed incredibly off-putting and cringe inducing.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by jerf »

tyleo wrote: post #3
pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

> In our interviews with users, a common theme that’s emerged is a desire to better understand how, exactly, AI can be integrated into daily life. I don't want to integrate AI into daily life.

Meh, I have it integrated as a replacement for search engines at this point. I don’t even know that Claude is inherently better or if it’s more the lack of ads.

When I have a good idea that I can hit what I want in a single query, I still use search engines directly a lot. But I have found AI is pretty decent at automating the process of making a vague search, picking up from the search better search terms, then making a couple of other wrong searches, then refining down to what I really want and potentially pulling together an answer from multiple sources. I know how to do all that, but the AI can do in a minute what may take me 15 minutes.

I'd say I also know I can still do it, but... as the search engines deteriorate it is getting somewhat harder to do this by hand than it used to be. I still do this by hand sometimes for cases where I want the exploration of a topic for myself, rather than a focused answer where I don't really care about what I learn along the way, and it's getting harder. I don't know that it'll converge at "zero value" but the search result pages seem like they're just... harder to use for this than they used to be, though it's hard to put my finger on how.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by estearum »

lilerjee wrote: post #33

It seems saying "Your way to use Claude is wrong somehow, you should improve the way to use AI", instead of "Our tools have some wrong aspects and we will do our best to improve them".

It's actually quite normal to try to acquire skill at using tools. It's very normal for toolmakers to share insights and expertise in how best to use the tools they sell.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by aabhay »

This product feels bad and sloppy, so I’ll give my hypothesis for why this was built:

At this point, Anthropic is likely having Claude itself propose and build features autonomously based on providing it with raw user feedback. This could be one example. Which is why it has an eerie sense of redundancy and pointlessness (“You mostly used Claude to automate work and home tasks”, etc.).

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by AlienRobot »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

> In our interviews with users, a common theme that’s emerged is a desire to better understand how, exactly, AI can be integrated into daily life. I don't want to integrate AI into daily life.

"Cool product you have there... but what is it for?"

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by pc86 »

sumeno wrote: post #18
s3r3nity wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then…don’t? You are free to not do so, while others (like myself) can choose the opposite.

Tell that to our employers

Using AI for specific tasks at work is definitionally not "integrating AI into your life."

You might use a badge to open a door at work but that doesn't mean your integrating badge-door access control systems into your daily life. It's a tool that you only use at work.

Re: A new way to reflect on how you use Claude

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Post by pc86 »

asd88 wrote: post #13
pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

> In our interviews with users, a common theme that’s emerged is a desire to better understand how, exactly, AI can be integrated into daily life. I don't want to integrate AI into daily life.

To be fair, the article doesn’t quite deliver on this promise. The examples are mostly focused on improving work-related workflows, so I guess that’s what they think “daily life” is.

To most of the people working on these AI systems I'm willing to bet work in 90% of their waking life or more.
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