• Alex Standiford

    I know that AI gets shoved in places it doesn’t belong these days, and a lot of it is REALLY bad, but AI has completely transformed Feedly into one hell of a listening station.

    I wonder if the future of the web looks more like a Feedly feed instead of a social feed?

  • Alex Standiford

    I’ve come to find that telling AI to “stop being clever and just say the damn thing” seems to be very effective at getting better heading copy 😂

  • Alex Standiford

    Claude’s incessant need to enumerate is my new “Delve”

    “From content engagement to product recommendations to long-term customer value, you can recognize and reward partners for all the ways they help grow your business.”

    So bad

  • Alex Standiford

    What are y’all using for background removal these days?I have a large batch of images I need to remove the background from. I’m more than capable of doing it myself (I literally published books on how to do this with GIMP) but it’s tedious and I’m thinking maybe AI can do it.

  • Alex Standiford

    Today so many of my messages with Claude resulted in it saying “would you like me to do x?”

    To which I respond with “yes, please do x”

    Then it gives me a bullet point list of things it will do, and says “would you like me to do x?”

    Repeatedly, and now I hit my Claude limit from wasted messages. Annoying.

  • Alex Standiford

    This prompt yielded some really solid copy for Novatorius’ About Page:

    The attached document is a conversation I had with ChatGPT about Novatorius’ website. In this, we talk a little bit about how to create the about page for Novatorius.

    Some rules:

    You must not refer to this as “mine” or “I”. This is is a “we” and “us” thing. This is a business I run, but it’s not “me”.

    This should use the golden circle (Why, How, What)

    It should keep the nautical themes minimal. It’s tempting to use them but I think in this context it’ll be tacky.

    Avoid saying “status quo”

    I really want you focus heavily on what we believe. This page should capture the “about us” mostly through those beliefs. Nearly everything in this page should talk about beliefs, tenants, and values.

    I do not want you to mention anything that even remotely suggests what we do. That is not the purpose of this page. This should be all about encapsulating the spirit of what Novatorius is.

  • Alex Standiford

    Settling into a routine.

    Use ChatGPT to have a conversation and get the stuff out of my head.

    Use Claude to discuss that discussion, disseminate key details, and extract what I need from it.

  • Alex Standiford

    Loving Claude’s “Projects” feature.

  • Alex Standiford

    One thing I really like about Claude is that it extracts long responses as documents. Makes it a lot easier to extract key things from the conversation.

  • Alex Standiford

    The most powerful AI prompt I have in my arsenal:

    “I want you to interview me, asking one question at a time about {thing}. I have the information about {thing}in my head, but need your help extracting and organizing it.”

    Then, after all questions are asked, I ask Chat to put it into a report.

    It’s such a powerful way to get info out of your head, and you can do it with voice chat while walking.