Nathan Labenz: belief

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…Claude is the AI collaborator that understands your entire workflow, from drafting and research to coding and complex problem-solving. Start tackling bigger problems with Claude and unlock Claude Pro’s full capabilities at https://claude.ai/tcr Build your own Cognitive Revolution monitoring agent in one click. How would you like to show us some of your stuff? I think, um, the extension or the kind of corollary of my intro is people should watch other people use computers more. I feel like in particular, folks who started programming in an era where there was like very classic editors and like lots of command line and cron job type of stuff. seem likely to me to have a kind of advantage or a little bit of a different paradigm that now suddenly becomes more relevant again as we're all like using command line tools. And most of us, myself included, have like very limited familiarity or attraction to that modality before. So I'd love to just peek over your shoulder for a minute, if you wouldn't mind, and learn a little bit about how you actually use AIs and I guess even more generally, like how you use the computer. Sure, yeah, let's go for it. So, okay, share screen. So I thought I'd start with showing off a few of the applications I was talking about before. And I've got them all lined up in tabs here. So this is that feed reader I was talking about. This is current live view. And there's very, fundamentally, there's very little to it. This is basically the only screen I use. It's the dumbest possible thing. It's just a list of posts. And it looks like we're getting demo disease because-- yeah, so the last few posts, I must have just broken something. And they should all get summaries within about a minute of coming in, but for the last hour, they haven't. But the older ones have them. So this is the summary I was talking about. And again, so kind of my workflow here is whenever I have a little idle time and I want to distract myself, I run through this and I see-- I might go through an order, or I might jump around, and I look at, Is this something I want to read? And I can either click on it, and that'll just open the original, or the main thing I'll do is I'll go over here and hit Archive. This is an example of iteration, something I thought I would want to do, and almost never do. So this is an icon that will... open a Claude session with that article in context, so I can ask questions about it. And I actually forgot this feature was there until just now, because I haven't been using it. But something I will do sometimes, so overview, this is also pre-computed. It's also just a simple LLM prompt, summarize this post. But it's a different prompt that generates a longer, about a one-page summary. And it specifically says, tell me the novel ideas here. Tell me the notable evidence. So I basically gave it prompts that correspond to these section titles. And mostly, I either look at the first summary, and I'm either going to read the article or I'm not. But if I'm either on the fence or I feel like it's not worth reading, but maybe it is worth getting a little-- like, this is my sort of-- 8020 alternative to reading the post. And so that's pretty much it. There's a bunch of other stuff in here, all of which is just like infrastructure to keep the tool working, almost none of which I would have bothered to implement if I had to do it instead of an AI. But so like it, you know, every day it dumps a backup of the whole thing into into D2, which is Cloudflare's version of S3. You can view the backup. I would have never in a million years bothered to-- and this is a pretty printed view of the information in the backup. I would have never in a million years bothered to implement a pretty printed backup viewer. But that was one sentence in one of my prompts. And this helps me be reassured that the backups are really working.…

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