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by bmurphy1976 7 days ago
My daughter was struggling with her Math class back in January. I used Claude to build a tool that allowed me to generate very focused worksheets. The worksheets had problems designed to drill the concepts she was struggling with.

It worked, and it would have been MUCH harder to do this the traditional way.

The tool generates PDFs including an answer key and solution sets that solved the problems using a variety of techniques so I could check her work more easily and we could iterate quickly.

That's powerful. It comes back to how are you using the tool. Are you using it to make things better or to take shortcuts?

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>That's powerful. It comes back to how are you using the tool. Are you using it to make things better or to take shortcuts?

Where are the incentives at a societal level to prioritize quality over efficiency? Of course if everyone did things the "correct" way we'd have no issues. But societies incentives are messy and contradictory, so taking shortcuts ends up being the more appealing choice in the moment for lots of people.

This is as much a societal issue as it a technological one.