Claude Cookbook

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mindwok•about 1 hour ago

Gotta be honest, almost every "how to use AI" resource seems pointless to me. I'm either going to ask the AI how to do it, or if it's about using the AI then we can just bake it into the harness or wait for Anthropic/OpenAI to do it for me because they're always trivial.

All of these resources on agentic workflows, managing agent memory, harness engineering, etc. appear to just be theatre to me.

cloakandswagger•16 minutes ago

Remember in 2023 when people thought "prompt engineering" would be the new software engineering and invested tons of time into learning CoT, ReAct, thread-of-thoughts, etc?

Those were mostly obviated by reasoning models and harness updates by 2024.

It seems pointless to invest energy into the latest/greatest AI technique or framework when they're going to either be absorbed or replaced on a 3 month cycle.

deepfriedbits•about 1 hour ago

Not only that, but all of this tooling around models has such a short shelf life as the models themselves grow in capabilities, they absorb the tooling. We've already seen it over and over again.

oggreen•26 minutes ago

Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud. Everytime I do a demo it seems like a waste of time compared to just actually building.

Unless I'm doing something super complicated even taking time to set things up like subagents, etc. seems like a waste compared to just building.

The only things that really seem beneficial (for Claude Code) seems to be learning to set up loops, memory and finding relevant MCP servers.

john___matrix•about 1 hour ago

This is how I've gone about it with my Shopify site.

I appreciate there may be more efficient ways to do things if you're an actual developer or engineer but I'm not and the tools I've been able to build so far have been both fun to make and add value to our workflow as a small 2 person ecommerce business.

I do at least have a background in web as a designer for many years and having worked with developers I can at least spec and understand how a product might work which is one thing Claude/AI isn't hugely helpful with and often it's the testing and QA phase as always where the problems and shortcomings expose themselves.

NooneAtAll3•32 minutes ago

if you know how to ask Ai about how to use Ai, you already know how to use Ai

the point of guides is to provide assurance for people unfamiliar to the process in the first place

mindwok•16 minutes ago

If the bar is knowing how to type a question into a box, I'm confident almost everyone is better off starting with that then reading a "cookbook" that starts with installing python packages.

gherkinnn•23 minutes ago

https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/coding-prompting-for-fr...

Before: bland

After: bland with gradients

beklein•about 2 hours ago

Thanks! I also like the OpenAI Cookbook: https://developers.openai.com/cookbook

Other AI labs also tend to publish examples and cookbooks on GitHub and Hugging Face, so it's always worth keeping an eye on those as well.

motbus3•39 minutes ago

After all this effort of not opening the models, then trying to forbid people to use open models and all the rubbish their CEO keeps talking about common people I am done with Anthropic.

I can't use it on good faith Same goes for grok, chat gpt and others all involved in killing people and monopolising the market.

AntiqueFig•about 2 hours ago

I thought it would be a litteral cookbook on how to make plausible/feasible recipes with LLMs (we're not here yet sadly).

p_l•17 minutes ago

I have actually cooked with LLMs, specifically Gemini, few times this year.

Works surprisingly well, can even tell it "I have so and so ingredients in my pantry, I want a keto-friendly meal, what can I make?" followed with some narrowing down dialogue-style.

simonw•32 minutes ago

I've been cooking with the help of LLMs a few times a month for over a year now. It's worked out well 9/10 times.

It turns out the "average" version of a recipe that's baked into the weights is usually a solid recipe, and they're really good at offering substitutions for things like "I don't have ingredient X" or "make it vegetarian".

It's also fun promoting "make it tastier" once or twice after each recipe just to see what happens.

cloakandswagger•11 minutes ago

One of the most satisfying and useful applications for AI is handing it the URL for a recipe (replete with 8 paragraphs of useless introductory text, 2 paragraphs dedicated to how to refrigerate the meal, 9 inline advertisements and a mid-scroll ad) and having it return the actual recipe in Markdown in an Obsidian folder.

willis936•42 minutes ago

Same. I was hoping for a digital meal planner.

weird-eye-issue•25 minutes ago

Ask it for one?

svara•about 1 hour ago

Somehow all the with/without cookbook design examples look vibe coded on both sides to me.

I'm not enough of a designer to be able to point exactly at what makes it so, but Claude does seem to have a somewhat limited repertoire of styles.

Maybe if you could point more precisely at the required changes, you could discourage it?

merrvk•about 1 hour ago

They could have done at least one pass on the UI. Can't even get simple table spacing right

winterbourne•about 2 hours ago

Recipes like this get baked into the next iteration of a model.

behnamoh•about 1 hour ago

So like OpenAI's Cookbook which has existed for years and no one reads?

simonw•26 minutes ago

Anthropic started their in August 2023 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/commit/2b3f4a...

OpenAI's started in June 2022 https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/commit/535f545be7e...

weird-eye-issue•24 minutes ago

Have you ever thought that just because you don't read something doesn't mean that nobody reads it?