But tbc all the relevant difficult design decision here were me and not claude.
I also actually only found the forkmode trick like 3 days ago so consider it not that well tested I guess—seems pretty good to me though.
My memo isn’t like “here’s this super secret trick that makes claude so much better” but mostly like “here are the simple things you can do that seem better than not doing them (and maybe even gets you sth like a 80:20 of a power user for non-coding tasks if you learn how to use it well)”. My overall setup is significantly more complex.
The reason I’m asking is that it’s hard to tell what, if anything, of what anyone says about how to use LLMs matters / is useful. So doing something that is concretely impressive helps to pay attention to the right person in the first place, and then see how specifically what they did with LLMs helped them solve the problem. I appreciate you linking that thing, but I can’t tell whether it’s impressive; I’d have to default to assuming it’s slop.
it’s not slop but the reason it’s not is because i basically crafted all the logical steps and the LLM was mostly my extended keyboard (a very good one though).
And the advice here doesn’t nearly get you to the level of using the keyboard as well as I do, you need significant practice on top. I think it’s still good advice for most people to get started though.
I decided last Thu that I’m going to give the FLF epistack competition a shot and spent 1.5 days doing research and then built this in 2.5 days: https://epistack.simonskade.org/v1/docs/submission
But tbc all the relevant difficult design decision here were me and not claude.
I also actually only found the forkmode trick like 3 days ago so consider it not that well tested I guess—seems pretty good to me though.
My memo isn’t like “here’s this super secret trick that makes claude so much better” but mostly like “here are the simple things you can do that seem better than not doing them (and maybe even gets you sth like a 80:20 of a power user for non-coding tasks if you learn how to use it well)”. My overall setup is significantly more complex.
The reason I’m asking is that it’s hard to tell what, if anything, of what anyone says about how to use LLMs matters / is useful. So doing something that is concretely impressive helps to pay attention to the right person in the first place, and then see how specifically what they did with LLMs helped them solve the problem. I appreciate you linking that thing, but I can’t tell whether it’s impressive; I’d have to default to assuming it’s slop.
it’s not slop but the reason it’s not is because i basically crafted all the logical steps and the LLM was mostly my extended keyboard (a very good one though).
And the advice here doesn’t nearly get you to the level of using the keyboard as well as I do, you need significant practice on top. I think it’s still good advice for most people to get started though.
I’m not saying it’s slop or bad advice, I’m saying I wouldn’t be able to tell, and I expect other people also wouldn’t be able to tell without effort.