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As somebody new to Claude, can anybody give me tips for how to optimally use Claude as opposed to habits formed with ChatGPT? For example, my main concern is th
by scop 2y ago
As somebody new to Claude, can anybody give me tips for how to optimally use Claude as opposed to habits formed with ChatGPT? For example, my main concern is the limiting of messages over a given time period, even for paid accounts. I have often used ChatGPT for very specific questions/answers, but sending a large collection of "drill-down" follow up questions can burn through my Claude messages pretty quickly? Is it as simple as composing longer, more fleshed out prompts to begin with (addressing follow ups ahead of time?) or is this where something like Projects helps? Thanks for any feedback!
- throwup238 2y agoProjects can make it worse because I think the Claude rate limiting is token based. If I fill up a project to >100k tokens, I get rate limited much faster.
- light_hue_1 2y agoMy tip would be to use openai instead. There's an arms race. Openai was ahead. Then anthropic was ahead. Now gpt4o and o1 are better again. This may change in a few months. I'll miss the projects feature though.
- logicchains 2y agoGpt4o and o1 are absolutely not better at coding than Claude. They're noticeably worse at following complex, detailed prompts (e.g. a detailed prompt for it to create an application), and often forget details during the conversation (e.g. will revert to an old version of some code it already refactored). o1 is better than Claude for Leetcode hard style coding problems, but the majority of coding work isn't about that, it's about correctly implementing a spec. Plus even o1 will still often fill code with "implemention here" comments, in spite of being explicitly asked to provide a full working implementation.
- light_hue_1 2y agoI write a lot of code with both in multiple languages. o1 is astronomically better than Claude. It's not even a competition.
- retendo 2y agoI have a totally different experience. I'm porting a medium sized project (40k loc) from iOS to Flutter and I couldn't be more happy with my setup with Claude. Every time I hit the Pro plan limit and I have to resort to ChatGPT the work that I have to put in to manually fix the code easily triples.
- thelittleone 2y agoHighly recommend using the API with a good client. It's cheaper and limits are way higher. I rarely hit my limit which is just a billing limit I impose intentionally.