Hi

I recently subscribed to the paid version of Claude, but not having got much of substance from it was thinking of downgrading to the free version until I was prompted by my client Annabel and read an article that extolled it's virtues as better than Chat GPT which has been my preferred go-to LLM.

So I decided to explore.

Not surprisingly I hadn't done my research well enough, and Claude has hidden talents I was unaware of such as it's ability to add 'Preferences' (like Custom Instructions in Chat GPT) and build 'Skills' (I'm sure there are others I'm still discovering).

But if you haven't found it let me tell you about Skills: you give Claude a subject - mine was to create a webinar with an outline, speaker notes and a PowerPoint presentation. It asked me several questions and let me upload some templates and then - wow - of it went and 10-15 minutes later it had written all the code.

I was asked to try it out so I gave it the subject only - no resources - of a Materclass I am running for a client about Making Tax Digital for Income Tax next month and it produced all three outputs I asked for of exceptional quality - even the PowerPoint.

Claude will definitely stay in my toolbox, with a note to self to remind me that no one LLM is perfect, and that I should use at least 4 or 5, and that they all have so many features I may not have discovered yet that a deeper dive into them all is a good investment of time.

Let me know if you have a preferred LLM and how you are using it to improve your operations and efficiency.

Noel Guilford