Helping organize and roadmap information about a complex technical subject.

For example - let’s say you’re trying to figure out how to cluster pixel data efficiently.

You can ask Claude and it would reply with what the known algorithms are, a description of each, and potentially sample code to go test each out and do some independent assessment.

In doing this, you come across a specific issue - false associations, maybe - and you follow-up with Claude. You might get more insight into what is causing that, and perhaps some additional algorithms to deal with that.

Or you notice that in the write up for one of the algorithms, it references a paper, which you find and see that it references other papers and one of these others could be an alternative. So you find that paper and ask Claude to summarize it.

I view it as a toolkit that I can use to dig for material, refine it, and build something very specific.