Ruben Hassid · 9 min read · Gen AI Tools
27 Claude tips after 1,800 hours.
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A long-time Claude user shares practical tips to accelerate adoption and improve outputs. The guidance covers project usage, model ordering, image workflows, prompt correction, and input methods to achieve better results while controlling costs.
Key Takeaways
- Use Claude Projects only for fixed-material tasks; for creative work, start a new empty chat each time.
- Start with Fable-5 High for your initial prompt, then switch to Opus-5-High to continue the conversation cost-effectively.
- Since Claude can’t create images directly, generate an HTML-like infographic and export it to Canva for visuals.
- If Claude gives a wrong answer, edit the prompt at the point of error and save to avoid compounding mistakes in the chat history.
- Speak prompts instead of typing to improve prompt engineering; use dictation tools to capture messy thoughts and refine them later.
Excerpt
I am a heavy Claude user. I started waaaay before you, back in March 2023, when this was the design: This is a very old Linkedin post from me, and I was discovering Claude. Since then, I have been begging you to switch. First in December: I told you to switch. But maybe you were not reading me back in December. Then, in “ Quit ChatGPT ” back in February. These two newsletters are completely outdated for mastering Claude. If I had to get you up to speed very fast, here are my 27 ( non-obvious ) tips to get…