Talking with Claude

I picked up a Pro subscription to the Claude LLM, chiefly to have more computing power to apply to writing an interactive RPG about a withc in Oxford that I have been working on as a side-project for much of the year. Their Opus model is impressive at turning a months-long discussion of many hundreds of pages (with updated and contradictions and reversals) into a mostly-coherent and undeniably well-written lore document. Last night I came across a strangely empowering way to use Claude. In voice mode I can use it on a bike grinding up a hill, and did so last night to start an all-life to-do tracking thread. When I got home, it talked me through organizing and discarding stuff that I had been putting off for months or years. It’s not that the LLMs output is all that useful for such tasks — a lot of which amounts to ‘you’re right! keep going!’ — but the feeling of talking it out with somebody makes tedious and unwanted tasks much more tractable. We literally talked through every item in…