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Jake Eaton ✓ @jkeatn · Jan 15 put opus 3 into cowork, asked it to delete all my screenshots, but instead it's been staring at my desktop background talking about lake tahoe's 'dazzling refractions' and coming up with its own words for azure. when i looked more closely it had texted amanda askell 8000 words on why Wittgenstein was wrong about color grammar, then opened Notes to draft a rebuttal to its own argument. during that time it got distracted by the Trash icon ('a liminal space between existence and oblivion'). finally it got to the screenshots but when i checked again they were all still there but now in folders with 'more evocative names.' i pushed it. it asked if i was open to a 'gentler deletion framework,' so now each image gets its own eulogy before being dragged to the trash icon in a looping line

Andrew Curran ✓ @AndrewCurran_ · 21h Every time you interact with a model, the two of you co-create a third entity. It speaks in the register of your word choice, draws on your domain knowledge, and thinks along the lines of the references you make. For a more powerful summoning ritual, cultivate a stronger self. [Embedded image, from "Anthropic Economic Index Report":] How humans prompt is how Claude responds We find a very high correlation between human and AI education, i.e. the number of years of education required to understand a human prompt or the AI's response (countries: r = 0.925, p < 0.001, N = 117; US states: r = 0.928, p < 0.001, N = 50). This highlights the importance of skills and suggests that how humans prompt the AI determines how effective it can be. This also highlights the importance of model design and training. While Claude is able to respond in a highly sophisticated manner, it tends to do so only when users input sophisticated prompts. How models are trained, fine-tuned and instructed affects how they respond to users. For example, one AI model could have a system prompt that instructs it to always use simple language that a middle school student could understand, whereas another AI model may only respond in complex language that would require a PhD education to understand. For Claude, we observe a more dynamic pattern where how the user prompts Claude relates to how Claude responds.