Writing is my passion. A superpower. My journal is a unique product of my mind. Well, I decided to pressure-test it.

This AI use case is writing assistance. I chose Claude, an assistant from Anthropic. Every AI guru is screaming about the power of prompting, but I really wanted to set the baseline low. Three sentences, a click of the button and three seconds later I got a 2-page draft of a blog entry. I wanted Claude to compose an article how a white-collar worker is trying to adopt AI but not really taking serious steps to learn. I also asked to describe the most common obstacles in adoption.

This is exactly what I put in the prompt box: “Help me write a blog entry on the difficulties to start using AI in the everyday life of a white collar worker. Describe most common obstacles that get in the way of AI adoption. Create relatable story of the author trying to break vicious circle of not really trying hard.”.

The outcome was strikingly good. A little generic (Claude has only met me a minute earlier!), but I really wanted to tune a few details - remove particular product names, replace work activity with another, closer to my actual domain and it was nearly ready. The reasons for procrastination felt very real indeed!

The last change I asked Claude to introduce was a funny story of an misinterpreted prompt than went viral. Well, let me just say that the machine has a sense of humor!

The final draft is here. It has taken me less than 5 minutes.

My journal is still uniquely mine. I intend to keep it that way, at the expense of productivity. No need for this content to be mass-produced. But now I can imagine recording a voice note to Claude to write a customer complaint letter to a mobile network provide, whose chatbot cannot even understand that I want to enroll to a service, not cancel it!

(check back in a few days!)

(coming soon)