While I use Claude a lot for my Omarchy plugins and Linux optimization/failure detection, I don’t use it for writing and note-taking, especially for coming up with unique ideas and driving them home by writing them through to the end.
It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI.
lupire•14m ago
It's also hard to finish an idea that is mine.
synalx•37m ago
I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. Then, later sessions suffer when it reads back those hallucinations and treats them as canonical.
mrtesthah•18m ago
Probably good to establish canonical spec documents up front that it can use and maintain as an independent reference?
lupire•15m ago
Doesn't need to be "up front", but you do need to curate the context.
AI can't read your mind, and it will read what you (or anyone else) wrote.
empath75•28m ago
I think having AI keep it's _own_ notes in Obsidian is a good idea because it makes them convenient for you to read, but yeah you need to quarantine agent ideas from your own ideas because otherwise you get bad cito-genesis problems. https://xkcd.com/978/
lupire•13m ago
I don't understand. Are you saying that AI should write notes but then they should be excluded from the AI's context?
gdulli•11m ago
What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?
helsinkiandrew•5m ago
There was a related study posted awhile ago:
> When people think AI did the creative work, task meaning and effort decline
zazuke•1h ago
It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI.
lupire•14m ago