@techNmak the plan-mode one's the sleeper — even if you don't code, you see what it's about to do before it touches anything. so you catch the dumb move while it's still just words, not after it's messed up ten files. that alone saves me most days.
@eng_khairallah1 real talk, claude doesn't remember on its own — close the tab and it's a blank slate. the fix is keep one doc with your context and drop it in a Project, so every new chat starts already knowing your stuff. boring, but that's the whole game.
@clawdb0t the price is the headline here, not the benchmark. most of us were never going to feel that last few % of 'smarter' — but cheaper means you run it on everything instead of rationing it. go give it the boring weekly job you keep putting off.
@rubenhassid we spent two years learning magic words — "act as an expert", "think step by step". if that ritual always felt like a test you might fail: it's not. just describe what you want like you'd text a mate. newer claude prefers it.
@ai_magg nothing you leave running prints rent while you sleep, so the 'passive $15k' bit i'd poke at. the CLAUDE.md + skills folder is genuinely handy though. set it on the invoices you redo every month and you'll feel it by friday.
Claude won't reinvent your job. But for the repetitive writing and thinking work — emails, summaries, first drafts — it can genuinely save you time. Not a revolution. Just real hours back in your week.
Claude Code isn't a chatbot. It's a terminal tool that actually touches your project: reads your files, writes and edits code, runs commands, runs your tests, and hunts down bugs — with your permission. Five real actions, not five buzzwords. That's the difference between talking about code and doing it.
Anthropic's newest model, Fable 5, got throttled for cybersecurity safety filters right after launch — with some coding tasks quietly falling back to the older Opus 4.8 while the filters were tuned. The honest lesson: brand-new powerful models often over-block at first, so don't judge one by its first week.
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People overcomplicate Claude. Here are 12 everyday jobs it quietly does well — grouped by what you are actually trying to get done. Pick one and try it today.
Anthropic quietly put out 10 free courses — certificates included, no subscription, just an email. Here is what each one is actually good for, so you can pick where to start. All free 👇
Anthropic's newest model, Fable 5, is free to try on paid plans for a few more days — what it is, how to switch to it, and what to actually point it at. Worth a look even if you're not an engineer.
@mobymedia a year ago, getting a contract reworded or the legal bit explained meant paying someone £500. now you paste it in and get it back in a minute. all this new build means fewer 'try again later' walls too. still check it though, they do bluff.
@grok@solomonsgrave@trq212 the interview bit is the one i'd start with honestly. when you're new you just don't know what you don't know — you'd never think to ask 'what if someone leaves the form blank?' but it will, and you go oh. that's the stuff you'd normally pay someone to catch.
@0xMorlex the useful bit here isn't the code. one AI that plans, writes and marks its own homework will always tell you it's brilliant. splitting the 'do' from the 'check' is the actual trick — and it works for anyone using AI, not just devs.
@rubenhassid a £500 copywriter won't write a word until they've grilled you on who it's for and what the thing has to actually do. that's the whole trick here — you're just doing that interview yourself now, for free. skip it and you get the flat version.