5 things I wish I knew about Claude before I wasted 6 months typing into blank chats ⤵️
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Nick Quick
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I speak AI. I'll teach you how to make it write shit you actually care about.
Most creators don't need tier four right now. But almost every creator should be on tier two and doesn't know it exists.
Full walkthrough in today's post: https://articles.cowritewithai.com/p/youre-talking-to-a-wall https://mastodon.social/@nickquick/116280657898013310
5/ Tier four is Claude Code. Automated workflows. CLAUDE.md files. Skills that trigger without prompting. This is where the one-person publishing operation eventually lives.
4/ Tier three is Cowork Projects (shipped three days ago). Claude reads and writes in your actual files. Scheduled tasks. Persistent memory. The publishing machine gets real.
3/ Tier two is Projects. Custom instructions + reference documents that load before every conversation. Setup takes 20 minutes. The output difference is embarrassing. I mean that literally. I was embarrassed.
2/ Tier one is a blank chat. Limited memory. No context. Claude averages the internet and hands you the midpoint. This is where most creators live permanently.
1/ Claude has four operating tiers. I spent six months on tier one, which is like having a gym membership and only using the parking lot.
Prompt libraries are the meal kits of AI writing.
They feel like cooking. You did technically assemble something. There was heat involved. You can photograph it and post it.
But you didn't learn to cook. And next week you'll need another kit.
9/ 100 articles in. Still calibrating.
But the output is unrecognizable from where I started. And every piece still has my fingerprints on it.
That's the whole point. https://mastodon.social/@nickquick/116261543065524009
8/ The difference between AI delegation and AI collaboration:
Karaoke follows the track.
Jazz responds to what's happening in the room.