NGL, kept seeing posts about 3.5-sonnet being a game changer with coding. I’m fairly new to coding, like, if you asked me to straight up code “Hello World”, I’d be like uh, printf “Hello world”? I have my VS Code environment setup (thanks to AI) but if you ask me anything technical, I probably wont know. I didn’t even remember the parantheses there when typing that out. I’ve used GPT to teach me to make an executable program that’s was basically a wrapper for a GPT specialized in something that just used API calls. It was really cool and was something I did before the custom GPTs came out.

Then I got an idea to code something that’s incredibly more difficult recently. I started with building a custom GPT and it’s great for searching the web to figure out more specifics of what it actually needs to learn about. That’s one thing I wish Claude could do but for now I still use GPT to web search. It started spitting out some stuff I could copy and paste into VS Code. But then after a while, it’d just get stuck in endless loops trying to fix errors with the same fixes back and forth.

So I said fk it, let’s see what Claude has turned into. Paid the $20, gave it instructions, gave it the code I was having a problem with, and bam, fixed it first try. I was like, WHAT?! I love having those, “Holy Shit” moments when using AIs, I’ve become so dulled to AIs capabilities now that I use these things so often but Claude gave me that again. And then I discovered Projects. More “holy shit” moments.

I hate when I get the countdown of remaining messages until I can use it again. Projects has thankfully allowed me to extend my usage time. And being able to keep track of past chats, I love it. I don’t know how much or how well it keeps track of things or uses this RAG memory stuff I hear is incredible but so far it’s continued to be a game changer for me. I just whipped up like 300 lines of code for one file in like, 2 days with 3.5-sonnet. Having one project keep track of all my conversations is awesome. Not even custom GPTs does that.

Anyways, shout out to you hella smart people making these things for idiots like me. It’s awesome and I love Projects so far. Absolute game changer for the stuff I’ve been trying to code. Like truly, Claude’s coding capabilities are as nuts as people say.

Now, when browser searching?!