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I Switched 50% of My AI Work to Claude, Here's Why

By Jeff Su

Summary

Topics Covered

  • Claude's Defaults Outperform Custom Instructions
  • Artifacts Enable Edits Without Copy-Paste
  • Projects Maintain Consistency Across Chats
  • Dashboards Self-Fix and Iterate Without Coding
  • Unstructured Data Yields Actionable Visuals

Full Transcript

a year ago I barely used Claud now it handles over 50% of my AI workload because when compared to other general purpose chat Bots like chbt and Google

Gemini CLA excels at three specific types of tasks so in this video I'll show you exactly how to set up Cloud for maximum performance cover its most impactful features and of course dive

into real world use cases let's get started first up we're going right into settings and under the profile tab you can see that I've intentionally left the personal preferences section here blank

this is claw's equivalent of chat PT's custom instructions why because unlike chat PT I find that claud's default output is already well structured and concise for example I have custom

instructions for Chach BT to structure outputs like a consultant but Claude doesn't need this kind of handholding and this is also one of the reasons I prefer Claude over chat jbt and Gemini

for writing tasks next go ahead and enable artifacts and CSV chat suggestions but disable prompt examples these are just two basic and clutter up your workspace and if you're on the paid

plan I highly recommend connecting your Google Drive and you'll see all of this in action in a little bit and under feature preview toggling on the analysis tool allows Claude to analyze and

visualize data again you'll see examples of this later on and I keep latex rendering off because I don't use clod for Math and someone the comments please confirm this is indeed pronounced latex now the foundation is set up let's move

on to feature number one artifacts diving right into an example here I'm asking Claude to draft an external blog post based on a product design document and notice how Claude opens up a

separate window to present the final blog post while explaining its thought process in the original chat thread put simply the artifacts feature this

Standalone window on the right makes it easy for us to work with complex output instead of having to copy text from the chat box and paste it somewhere and

having to remove this extra information right I could just copy the entire blog post here or download a plain text file and that's not all after adding a

follow-up prompt asking for a tweak to the first paragraph we can see Claude making real time edits directly in the artifacts window giving us the peace of

mind that nothing else has been changed in addition to text Claud can also output code and charts in the artifacts window check this out here I'm asking Claude to write a Google app script that

formats all speaker notes from a Google Slides presentation and although I have no coding background I just follow the steps copy and paste the code let it run

and wow it works perfectly for the charts example I'm going to kill two birds with one stone and first show you how we can click the screenshot button here to grab a screen capture from

another tab or window in this case I'm sharing an event registration funnel registered to approved to attended and I asked Claude to create a funnel

that visualizes the attendees for this event share key findings below the graph and after letting that run oops we ran into an error thank god this is my

design and I totally plann for this no but seriously I did um what's amazing is that we can ask Claud to fix its own error and after a few seconds CLA

successfully troubleshoots and outputs a chart and even adds a few calculations below don't worry we'll go through much more Advanced Data visualization

examples later but for now just remember Claude gets to determine when to use the artifacts window meaning sometimes if your task is too simple the text or code

output might just appear within the chat box next up we have writing styles when we start a new chat we can choose from a few preset writing styles and after trying these out I can tell you for 99%

of the time normal works just fine there's no need to waste time and add unnecessary friction switching back and forth I've also found the create my own style function to be slightly

disappointing the idea is to share a few paragraphs of example writing and Claude will remember and mimic that style for example I love watching fireships videos his name is also Jeff by the way my name

is Jeff he has this very sharp sarcastic and self-deprecating sense of humor but even after sharing transcripts from multiple videos claude's attempt at emulating his tone of voice is not just

underwhelming but arguably inaccurate by the way if keeping up with AI is one of your goals for this year you can grab my free AI toolkit designed to cut through the noise and help you master essential

AI tools and workflows I'll leave a link down below although this next feature isn't exclusive to Claw is my favorite one by far projects starting with a simple visualization of how it works

let's say I find a workout program I like online I can share that as context with Claude along with my fitness goals and ask claw to generate a tailored plan

for me simple but what if my girlfriend also wants a workout plan tailored for her instead of adding herles into the same chat thread and risk confusing the AI as the conversation progresses it's

much better to add the workout routine I found as project level context and within that project create two separate chats with chat level context one with

my fitness goals and one with that of my girlfriends putting aside the most hypothetical part of this example is me finding a girlfriend just think about how much time this feature can save you

at work for example as a product marketing manager one of my responsibilities is communicating product announcements so at the project level within Claude I attach a comto a

product overview document written by the product team and at the chat level I share newsletters from previous product announcements now that we have project

level context the coms do and chat level context EX examples of previous newsletters I can ask claw to write a newsletter for this latest launch using the same format structure and tone found

in the previous newsletters taking this a step further by sharing previous blog posts internal announcements and PR briefings at the chat level while keeping the coms do as project level

context we can quickly generate tailored outputs that maintain perfect consistency with our new product messaging the results are amazing try yourself yes I still need to go in and make some minor adjustment to the

outputs but with the right prompts this gets me 80% of the weight there a few things to keep in mind when using the projects feature first although we can

add text content at the project level we cannot at the chat level second I like to add project level custom instructions since we're announcing a new product

launcher I'm telling Claud to highlight the products unique benefits and how they solve potential consumer pain points and for let's say my own YouTube projects I instruct CL to act like a

senior YouTube strategist who's experienced at storytelling finally projects is a paid feature so if you can only pay for one AI tool out say stick with chat BT or Google Gemini since they

are more well-rounded and chat BT has the projects feature anyways um and only pay for Claude if your job involves a lot of writing and or coding moving on to interactive dashboards here I have

the latest AI agents white paper published by Google but it's too long I don't have a technical background and I just want to know the key Concepts so I attach it to a chat and ask Claude to

create an interactive dashboard to visualize this dense PDF so I can digest the information more easily Claude opens up the artifacts window and starts generating the code to produce the

dashboard and oops it ran into another bug no problem though we tell claw to take care of it and after a few moments it outputs a fully functional dashboard but as you can see the user interface is

a bit awkward so I tell Claude hey the layout is a bit weird let's have the tabs go across horizontally and the corresponding content only appear when I click on a tab and after a few more

moments Claud makes the changes so that only the active tabs contents are shown let's first take a moment to acknowledge how mind-blowing that was not only did

Claude generate a fully functional dashboard without us writing any code it also fixed its own errors and made edits to the initial dashboard Pro tip make

sure to include the key keyword interactive in your prompt when creating interactive elements like interactive funnel or interactive charts taking this example a step further I asked Claude to

create a simple infographic that summarizes the white paper so that I can share bite-sized visuals on social media and get that sweet sweet engagement after Claude does its thing I guess this

is technically an infographic but still very hard to understand the relationship between these key Concepts right so I can add a follow-up prompt uh let's show the relationship and connections between

the key Concepts in a more userfriendly way and use a black and orange color scheme and after Claude reruns the code this is much much better uh it's a lot

cleaner yes there's still issues like spacing issues and the arrows are on top of the text here but that's okay because I just wanted a visual mockup of how an

infographic would look and now I can download this as a SVG file and start making edits myself now let's talk about data visualization earlier on we created a simple funnel chart based on

information from a spreadsheet but you might be like Jeff this data is so clean it's organized it's in a table I'm usually working with unstructured Messy data no problem I have a set of messy

transaction data right here and instead of me telling you what we're looking at let's ask Claude we'll first download this as a CSV file and we're going to upload that onto Claud with this prompt

act as a senior business analyst blah blah blah your task is to analyze the provided data and Outline Three effective methods or Frameworks for

deriving meaningful insights and here when Claud is quote unquote thinking we can see the analysis feature we enabled earlier Claude first analyzes the data

which is great because we didn't share any context then Claud tells us what insights we can extract based on its analysis of the raw data I'm not going

to read through all of this but one thing that caught my IE was customer segmentation and since I know that all these transactions come from two sources

gumroad and subscription I can follow up with this prompt I like to segment the customers based on purchase patterns specifically I want you to bucket the purchases under gumroad or subscriptions

create a visualization and add key findings under the charts and after around 20 seconds of thinking and coding Claude outputs a bar chart comparing the

two types of transactions and below the chart we're told subscriptions made up 56% of transactions compared to gum Road's 44% yet despite fewer

transactions gumroad generated higher Revenue I'm a cynical person so just to be safe I go back to the raw data filter for all the subscription transactions and I'm just going to sum all this up

and we see that it's $2,862 and going back to our um Claud output here subscriptions $2,862 so yeah it's accurate if I wanted

to use this in a presentation at work I'd make some changes to the color scheme and font Styles right take a

screenshot of this chart here copy and insert it within a slide like so and I would copy the key findings and paste

those as Speaker notes Pro tip include the word visualize or visualization if you want claw to Output some sort of visual element we went through a lot today so so to quickly recap first the

projects feature lets us manage context at both the project and chat level enabling us to generate highly tailored content while maintaining perfect consistency second Claud excels at

turning complex information into interactive dashboards via its artifacts feature and the best part is we're able to easily make adjustments even if we don't know how to code and finally

thanks to the analysis feature clot is able to visualize insights derived from unstructured data in ways that anyone can understand from simple funnels to customer segmentation

analysis if you enjoyed this you might want to check out my perplexity and notebook LM tutorials next see you on the next video in the meantime have a great one

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