Claude Cookbook(platform.claude.com) |
Claude Cookbook(platform.claude.com) |
Before: bland
After: bland with gradients
All of these resources on agentic workflows, managing agent memory, harness engineering, etc. appear to just be theatre to me.
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.
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.
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.
the point of guides is to provide assurance for people unfamiliar to the process in the first place
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
OpenAI's started in June 2022 https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/commit/535f545be7e...