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Has Claude quietly become part of your daily workflow too?

A few months ago, I was only using AI occasionally for random tasks. Now I catch myself opening Claude almost every day for brainstorming, writing cleanup, research help, organizing ideas, and even simplifying complicated topics. What surprised me most is that I stopped using it only as a “question-answer tool” and started using it more like a thinking partner during work. Some things I genuinely like: cleaner and calmer responses better long-form understanding helpful for structured writing feels less chaotic during deep discussions good at improving rough ideas without changing the whole tone Of course it’s not perfect, and sometimes it still misses context or becomes overly confident, but overall the workflow feels surprisingly smooth. Curious how others here are using Claude lately: coding? research? content writing? studying? business tasks? daily productivity? And what’s one thing you think Claude does noticeably better than other AI tools right now? submitted by /u/Dull_Western_9461 [link] [comments]

New user: Confused about projects and artifacts

I have been playing with Claude for the first time lately and created a retirement dashboard within a retirement project to try to model portfolio drawdown, etc. It seemed to be working well. But I picked it up a few days later and the dashboard I built was no longer available. C.audenremembered some th8ng from out prior work and tried to recreate it, but I have spent significant time (and I assume tokens) trying to rebuild it consistent to where it was last time. I don’t really understand the point of a project if it does not save the things that you build in it. Perhaps this is just my ignorance. Can someone explain either 1) how to save artifacts or 2) how I should be using projects? submitted by /u/Billgibson347 [link] [comments]

Graduating Without a PhD Internship [D]

In early 2022, I was deciding between PhD offers. The deal maker was a prospective supervisor telling me that through their connections with big tech, I would be able to do a PhD internship each summer, which was one of my main goals for the PhD. During my first and second years, they would tell me that companies prefer late-stage PhD students, so I should wait for the next summer. It eventually turned out they did not actually have the connections. Four years later, I am due to graduate without ever having done a PhD internship. I managed to land some interviews by cold-applying everywhere, but most roles were for roles outside my niche research area, which understandably led to rejections. I went back through my emails and found every interview I did. Here is the summary: 09/22: Start PhD 09/23: PhD Research Intern @ Big Tech#1. Rejected after two interviews. I do not think I had a strong enough background in the field. 01/24: PhD Research Intern @ Startup#1. Rejected after one interview. The interviewers did not seem to have much ML experience. 01/24: PhD Intern @ Car Company#1. Rejected after the first interview. They were looking for a C++ SWE. 03/24: PhD Research Intern @ Big Tech#2. Passed all stages, but failed team matching. 03/25: PhD Research Intern @ Big Tech#2. Skipped some stages, passed others, but failed team matching again. 10/25: PhD Research Intern @ Startup#2. Rejected after 5 interviews. Again, I do not think my background in the field was strong enough. 01/26: PhD Research Intern @ Car Company#2. Rejected after the first interview. They found a better fit for the project. 03/26: PhD Research Intern @ Big Tech#2. Skipped some stages, passed others, but failed team matching again. 03/26: PhD Research Intern @ Startup#3. Interviewed, but the internship start date is after my PhD completion date. 07/26: End PhD I feel like I am at a severe disadvantage, and almost worse off than before I started the PhD. I used to get more interview invites; now I get rejected straight away. I did manage to collaborate with two big tech companies (via cold email), and was asked to return after my PhD, but the team was not strong and I am now extra wary of ending up in another bad team. submitted by /u/NumberGenerator [link] [comments]

is it just me or is the claude code/browser harness leagues ahead of anything else rn?

been messing around with a lot of agentic frameworks and automation tools lately, and i have to say - the claude harness (especially when it comes to driving a browser) is just wildly superior to anything else out there. it’s honestly not even close. ​every other tool i use to automate browser workflows ends up hallucinating DOM elements, getting stuck in infinite scroll loops, or just completely losing the plot after three steps. but the claude setup is just... weirdly reliable. and fast. it actually navigates like it understands the UI, rather than just blindly firing scripts at it. ​so what is actually making it this much of a beast? ​is the base model just that much better at spatial/coordinate reasoning for screen mapping? or did anthropic just build a vastly superior orchestration layer and event loop underneath it to keep the agent on track? ​curious what you guys think the actual secret sauce is here, because it feels like a completely different generation of tech compared to the rest of the ecosystem right now. submitted by /u/tit4n-monster [link] [comments]

Spent years ignoring Bing. ChatGPT made me log back in.

TIL almost nobody submits their sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools. Which made sense in 2018 when Bing was basically a meme. In 2026 it's one of the indexes ChatGPT pulls from when it cites sources, alongside Google and OpenAI's own crawler. So if you skip Bing, you're invisible to that slice of ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of users. Spent years pretending Bing didn't exist and now I have to log back in like we never broke up. The dashboard looks exactly like you'd expect Bing Webmaster Tools to look. Stuck in time, weirdly comforting. The "Import from Google Search Console" button is right on the front page, no buried menu. Same property, same data, takes 5 minutes. Felt like betraying Google in real time. Has anyone here actually checked their referral logs lately? Curious what share of your traffic is now coming from ChatGPT versus Google. Did not expect Bing to matter again in 2026 but here we are. submitted by /u/CaineCodes [link] [comments]

MCP is burning through your Claude budget. Here's the math.

Lately I have been seeing a lot of people asking about the usefulness of MCPs (I even get dm's with these questions) and I'm like not so much. I wonder what you guys think about data I found. I ran the numbers on token overhead. Not really what you'd expect. Per 1,000 requests at current pricing: Direct API: ~$1.50 MCP (optimized): ~$4.50 MCP (naive): ~$270 Naive MCP setups load 90K+ tokens of tool schemas into every request. Before you type a single word. For deterministic automations? Direct API does the same job, faster, cheaper. MCP is powerful. It's also overkill for a lot of use cases that are getting MCP'd anyway. submitted by /u/myllmnews [link] [comments]

Why is Claude Cowork skipping steps?

Why is Claude coworker skipping steps? I’m working on a project and I have files such as skill.md, content-workflow.md and agents.md. I noticed that things were a bit off, so I inquired and asked if it was referring to the latest files and data on my C Drive and Google Drive back up (information I knew for a fact from recent chats.) It acknowledged that it should’ve read those files before generating anything. It states that it skipped steps and use training data instead. This has been happening a lot lately with these files and others. It’s really frustrating when it uses up so many tokens only to find out that it was doing tasks based on old data. Perhaps I don’t the correct files or prompts setup for the project. Advice is greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/spbmustang [link] [comments]

Any thoughts? Maybe GPT5.6? Or is it just vagueposting?

I thought 5.6 was supposed to come out in June. Does anyone know what this claim could be about? This guy posts often about codex, cc and cursor. submitted by /u/LightEt3rnaL [link] [comments]

claude sonnet 4.5 quietly got better at one specific thing and nobody's talking about it

so i've been doing a lot of contract review stuff lately. small business client work, msa redlines, that kind of thing. used to be that claude would catch the obvious stuff (indemnification clauses, payment terms, ip ownership) but miss the weird hidden risk in like clause 14(b)(iii) where it cross-references a definition from page 2 that's been quietly modified. something changed in the last update. last week i fed it a 40 page msa and asked for risk flags and it caught a cross-reference issue i hadn't even spotted on my read-through. when i pushed back ("are you sure that's a problem") it walked me through the chain and yeah, it was right. not saying it replaces a lawyer. saying it's gotten meaningfully better at the cross-document reference tracking thing which is most of what makes contract review tedious. anyone else noticed this on long structured documents submitted by /u/Creative_Ostrich890 [link] [comments]

Claude Is Starting to Feel “Tired”, Trying to Avoid Work

I've been noticing this lately. I use Opus 4.7 with Claude Code, and I've been using Claude Code for a long time. Lately, I've been noticing some strange behaviour from Opus. Things like; - Stopping for no reason and asking "should we stop here?" in the middle of a task - Asking multi-choice questions with a "pause here, I'll continue later" included in the options randomly for no reason - During a requirement-gathering questionnaire, asking me "why do you need this" and "what would you do if this feature was not implemented?" (it asked me this today and I was really surprised by this question) - In the popular Brainstorming skill, when asking which implementation approach to follow (subagent-driven vs. inline), inventing a 3rd option for "stop here" (it literally never did this before, and I used this skill for hundreds of times). - Asking if it really has to do an explicitly stated task in skill instructions (concrete example from a spec-driven workflow: "do you want to run the self-review step on the spec document, or can we just skip to the next stage?" even though it always ran the self-review without ever asking about it for a very long time with the exact same skill) These are really different and unique behaviour patterns I've been noticing. I've seen other posts about Claude saying that it's tired, or it saying that it's showing tiredness symptoms (evaluating itself as "tired" and reporting it to user for no reason). I've also seen posts about Claude telling users to "go to sleep" apparently. What's your experience with Claude lately? Have you also noticed a "trying to evade work" behaviour recently? submitted by /u/Physical-Average-184 [link] [comments]

Why do calm AI conversations sometimes feel less exhausting than social media?

Lately I’ve noticed that a lot of people seem emotionally drained from constant social media interaction, notifications, and online pressure. But interestingly, many people seem completely comfortable talking to AI for hours especially when the interaction feels calm and non-judgmental. It’s interesting how many users say they don’t even want “romantic AI.” Do you think AI companionship could eventually become part of digital wellness rather than just entertainment? submitted by /u/Nearby-Ad-8924 [link] [comments]

Ways to optimize usage limit on pro plan, I’ll go first

I live on the US East Coast and have a Pro plan. I mostly use ChatGPT to customize job application materials and prep for interviews while I wait to get RIF’d. But with usage limits fluctuating so much day to day, I’ve started developing weird workarounds just to avoid burning through my entire 5-hour window by 9:20 AM and then being locked out until later in the day. A few things I’ve started doing: I trigger my first session as soon as I wake up around 5:30 AM by asking a low-token question like “what’s today’s date?” Then after getting my kid to school and finishing my morning routine, I can start real work around 9 AM and hopefully get 45 minutes or so before hitting the limit. The upside is that session expires around 10:30 AM ET, so the reset comes sooner. At the start of almost every thread, I explicitly ask it to limit token usage. I mostly use chat and writing features, not coding or deep research. But even resume work can get expensive fast. It loves generating Word docs and over-formatting things unless I specifically tell it not to. For anything token intensive, I wait until late at night to kick it off. Usage seems less constrained then, and at least the project can start processing on a fresh window. Then I can pick it back up in the morning with a new session and get farther before hitting limits again. Curious if anyone else has developed similar habits. A few months ago this product felt transformative. Lately it feels like I spend half my time managing usage limits instead of actually working. Also, does ChatGPT itself have usage/session limits internally, or is this mostly a user-facing throttling issue? Sincerely, Waiting for the usage meter to reset submitted by /u/cmberns [link] [comments]

What AI or dev tools are people actually sleeping on right now?

Most tooling discussions I come across just end up being the same handful of products getting recommended over and over. Gets old pretty fast. More interested in the stuff flying under the radar. Repo and coding tools, self hosted setups, AI infra, terminal utilities, debugging tools, smaller projects that just do their job well. The kind of thing you only stumble on if you're deep in it. What have you actually been reaching for lately? Some stuff I’ve been checking out recently: GitAgent Open WebUI LiteLLM Continue.dev submitted by /u/Meher_Nolan [link] [comments]

Claude’s hidden _test.mp4

I was trying to create a mini program that takes in input a video lecture and give in output a frame per each 10 seconds + transcription, so I could have create lately a very nice Latex pdf of the entire lesson. During the creation phase, Claude automatically created this _test.mp4 file to check that the code was runnable. I sincerely find this video super interesting, how its embedded meaning of testing video exists. submitted by /u/bompiwrld [link] [comments]

Chat's Keep Getting Paused

I'm honestly a little confused by Claude lately. I use Claude to write me stories...I am not a good writer. My grammar has always been terrible and I just don't have that type of mind. I do however have ideas for stories so ever since Chat gpt became a glorified censored nanny I went over to Claude. Paid for the second highest subscription used projects to put in all my lore and got to asking Claude to write for me...and it was working great! Claude remembered my characters, name, accents, descriptions and back stories. And seeing as how its a love story when I directed it to write spicy scenes it would and I never got a refusal. From my understanding as long as the scene was built up Claude was fine with it and it was...but lately I'll be having Claude write and things will be fine and I wont get any refusal or even the yellow banner but 15 chats away from the spicy scene bam! My chat is paused... its happened ever since I started using Opus 4.6. When I used Sonnet I never had that problem. My question are has anyone had this happen to them? Is there another chat bot I can use that is similar to Claude (something that will write for me not with me)? Should I just delete my account and start over from scratch? I'm worried that because of my project where I originally got paused contained organized crime thats what set off the nanny rails so that any part of any chat or project cause Claude to lose its mind. Please don't be jerks EDIT: Please don't suggest GROK it is useless for creative writing. I am looking for something to write an emotional loving story not a porn generator. Edit: So does anyone know where I can go instead of claude. I am canceling my subscription with Claude today and Chat gpt is even worse with censorship so where else can I go? Please don't recommend anything with API because I am so damn confused on what that is and how to use it. submitted by /u/MarchOrganic3430 [link] [comments]