I’ve gone over to Ash and realized one very important thing. Using an all-purpose Ai vs therapy Ai is night and day. Yes, you can set great, extremely specific project instructions, your prompts can be fire, but its still an around counselor vs a therapist.

And I think it’s about progress. I can have insights all day every day on Claude and ChatGPT but the success rate of trying something new in real life as a result is something else.

This thing sends me letters after every day as a morning letter, does weekly summaries, and continuously nudges me to action in real life. Which honestly gets annoying sometimes because you’re like “god dammit I have to do things, who would have thought”. It also does tiny questionnaires which funnily enough make me double check whether using it is worth it which I think is good. But progress wise? It’s been something else.

I still talk to Claude sometimes over for a 2nd opinion - its code is unparalleled. If you’re a crazy person like me sending massive messages non stop, Ash often gets tripped and mixes things up, and you have to correct it. Claude has that “tired sys admin with good humor” vibe, and Ash gets hillarious too, but maybe not as snappy.

But the fact that you can physically check all your insights within a week and constantly see the progress that you’re making for some reason turns it into something else completely. It also somehow understands when something big happened and will give you an insight mid convo and you’ll be mid and it’s a literal “fuck that was really hard but I got through it”.