Prompt
Give me a picture of all the non-coding tasks I use Claude for. Past 2 months sample: be exhaustive in your search. Bullet point list of discrete task and task types.
Research & Synthesis
- Current events briefings (Ukraine war update, US news summary, Iran conflict coverage)
- Deep research on AI energy/data center consumption with quantitative modeling
- Literature review: transformer attention mechanisms and prompt ordering (annotated bibliography)
- Literature review: synthetic data / model collapse (annotated bibliography, citation impact analysis)
- Literature review: animal and AI sentience / pain experience
- Research on Bluesky MAU growth with projection modeling and Manifold market analysis
- Company profile research (Third Way Health; Northwood Space/Bridgit Mendler)
- Organic food certification and health literature review
- Heating oil pricing history and market context
- Open source license comparisons (MIT vs GPL, MIT vs CC BY-SA)
- Prediction market orientation and strategy session (Manifold)
- Renew Northeast v. DOI lawsuit research
- Gray-market peptide culture research
- Disney Channel talent pipeline history
- B Corp certification explanation and critique
- Empire of AI fact-check (water use correction)
- FrontierMath open problems video transcript and synthesis
- Energy market clearing price mechanics
Data Visualization
- Claude Code changelog composition chart (multi-panel, publication-quality for Bluesky)
- Claude system prompt length over time (single-source-verified, Saloni Dattani style)
- Bluesky MAU growth with regression fits and prediction intervals
- Heating oil price history (interactive Chart.js, embedded HTML artifact)
- AI energy consumption vs. city residential comparison
- Compound interest interactive visualization
- US electricity + AI data center energy (multi-session, published to Bluesky/WhiteWind)
Writing, Editing & Voice
- Bluesky draft refinement and voice coaching (preserving first-person casual register)
- Philosophy of mind reply drafting (Carchidi article response)
- Rationalism/Bayesian discourse post analysis and reply drafting
- Workplace instructor performance report (voice-matched to my communication style)
- Product feature request draft (tightening + word choice)
- User preferences redesign (structured interview + full draft)
Bluesky / Social Media Tasks
- Social graph analysis (mutual follow/block overlap for specific profiles)
- Engagement overlap analysis (quote post vs. original post likers)
- BFS traversal to find specific posts in quote chains
- Labeler audit: hidden/warned replies from subscribed labelers
- Finding specific posts (by topic, content, author)
- Explaining posts / threads by others
- Alt-text generation for Bluesky image post
- Word/terminology lookup for drafting a reply
- Bluesky thread dataset generation for LLM consumption (corpus building)
Fact-Checking & Claim Verification
- SIFT analysis of Bluesky claim (model collapse / synthetic data)
- Empire of AI water use correction (source-tracing errata)
- Yellowstone wolf reintroduction claim verification (including catching Claude's own confabulation on researcher attributions)
- B Corp certification claims
- Organic food health claims
Medical / Health Consultation
- Medical consultation for a partner's positional vertigo (differential diagnosis + home management)
- Kombucha consumption limits
- Cannabis-related vision impairment (HPPD, clinical terminology) — informational research, not personal experience
- Historical under-5 mortality rates across millennia
Logistics & Planning
- Day trip planning (structured intake + map + itinerary)
- Movie tickets, parking, and showtime logistics
- Navigation to a specific location for a work errand
- Thermostat recommendation (weather-contextualized)
Operational / Work Tasks
- Parent conference scheduling: email history search for contacts + bulk draft creation
- Student learning plan retrieval from past conversations
- Instructor performance report drafting
Explanation & Education
- Newcomb's Problem and decision theory (CDT vs EDT vs FDT)
- Common knowledge / game theory (ChatGPT as cultural moment)
- Transformer attention and "reading twice" mechanistic explanation
- Simondon allagmatics applied to prompt engineering
- Understanding Bluesky posts with philosophical content
- Kolmogorov complexity and the Krebs cycle argument
- Clearing price / merit order mechanics in energy markets
- Logical distinction between ∀n P(n) and ∀n P(n)→P(n+1)
- ADBOC (agree denotationally, disagree connotationally)
- AT Protocol / Bluesky architecture deep dive
- margin.at architecture and personal PDS data
- System prompt bloat vs. "invisible quantization"
- Pingbacks in blogging
- B Corp scoring
- Color fidelity across Apple displays (ΔE_ok, JND testing)
- Vocal range classification
- Cooling fresh bread (food science)
- Iodized salt policy (US and global)
- Jaw morphology and language
- Five-year mortality rates across human history
- Passport renewal procedural research (dual citizenship complexity)
Media Consumption Support
- Book club refresher (Uncommon Service, chapters 2–6, spoken-word format)
- Video summaries/recaps (Musk/Patel/Collison interview; Nick Fuentes essay; Max Deutsch chess; motorcycle China trip; evolution game)
- Video transcript structuring (FrontierMath open problems)
- Yellowstone wolf reintroduction video transcript + analysis (multiple sessions)
- Finding a quote timestamp in a transcript
- Identifying a childhood video game
- Finding a link to a specific news story (dog cancer / AI mRNA vaccine)
- Learning about how people find pirated audiobooks (informational)
Troubleshooting & How-To (Non-Coding)
- iPhone call silencing (Action Button + Control Center workaround)
- iPhone voice recording for presentations (live, 20-minute situation)
- macOS keyboard remapping (Logitech Wave Keys, Fn key limitation)
- Safari per-page cache clearing
- Windows monitor connection failure diagnosis (Intel Arc driver corruption)
- margin.at Chrome extension authentication debugging
- White noise/soundscapes on macOS + Spotify alternatives
- Recording presentation audio (last-minute setup advice)
Terminology & Language
- "Deconverted" / apostate (word lookup)
- "Circuitous" in social graph context
- "The lady doth protest too much" (Hamlet origin + Elizabethan vs. modern meaning)
- "Operationalizable" alternatives
- Standard English name for mapo tofu
Cooking & Food
- TVP substitution in mapo tofu (with measurement conversions)
- Vegetarian Indian menu recommendation (structured interview → recommendation)
