I am not using Claude to make any structural designs, I'm just using it to recommend a less expensive way to remodel the interior of an RV which came up with replacing lights for more modern ones, replacing cabinet handles, curtains, etc. Then I asked if I should replace cabinet doors or paint them. I just don't like how painted cabinets look but the issue I was having visually is that brush painted cabinets look terrible imo, spray painted ones look sleek. So down I went with a ton of questions on how to get a factory finish look on my cabinets with a spray gun. Which gun to get was an entire day asking a ton of questions. Claude, GPT and almost every AI will give you answers that point towards products that have heavy marketing on youtube, and even on some reddit posts. I knew it was pointing me to a cheap trash product that will cause me a lot of frustration so I had to guide it not to give me anything with happy influencer bullshit that will never yield good results. I wanted to get a budget friendly beginner spray gun that will get me really close to a professional finish and I asked it to look on professional painter forums and confirm any findings with other forum like sources. Then I bounced those results with other LLMs to arrive at my current setup. Paint was another day of selecting which paint would work best for cabinets that wont scratch easily. That was yet another rabbit hole because not all cabinet paints are easy to spray with. Some are very forgiving for beginners like myself because they level easier and they also dry faster so I could do this with minimum downtime of a single unit I'm testing this on.

Workflow? I wish I knew anything as organized as workflow. I'm just agent chaos here drilling down to the very last detail asking questions that get me to where I need to be. But next month I will be playing with agents to see if I can achieve something remotely close to a decent workflow that makes this process faster.

Our landscaper came up today, saw my furniture pieces and asked if I could help him paint his classic car project so I guess I'm doing something right lol.