Did some initial work in the Claude chatbot today while the VA still has a working license.
- The UI is certainly better for coding activities, with a Markdown-esque side-by-side view of the bot’s ramblings and the actual code.
- Compared to Copilot, Claude seemed to give better code/directions but with worse memory and more “typos”, like not adding a variable it called out in the chat to the actual code.
- I had to force myself to not fall into a conversational flow and to not use “you”. I tried not using pronouns at all initially but had to start using “I” to gather my thoughts.
- Prompt engineering continues to interest me but it seems like a distraction and a novelty more than real productivity. As others are discovering, hiring an intern is probably cheaper and more efficient (though also, perhaps, more time consuming) than burning through tokens. Somewhere an actuary and a consultant are trying to write a formula to figure out the margins, I’m sure.