About 5 weeks back, I came across a long form X-post by Matt Shumer. I don’t fully recall all of his points, but at that time it made an impression. It was a call to action that everybody, independent of the industry and profession they are in, should take a serious look at what is happening in artificial Intelligence and how it will affect us. My interest lies in developing apps that suits my idiosyncratic needs and highly opinionated apps that have an architectural flair. I spent a lot of time and personal fortune developing one such app using a custom development shop. There was zero adoption and ran out of money. So I naturally was interested how this new category can help me in such endeavors. The article suggested Anthropic’s Claude. Naturally I signed up for a free account and tried my “Hello, World” project. Since then, I have been experiencing something out of this world.

The project is something that has been an itch for me. Daily I solve a bunch of Sudoku puzzles from different sites. They all have built-in helper apps with different degrees of UX. The one that I particularly like is from the Washington Post. But there are a couple of additional features that would be really nice. So naturally I used it as my first project. After a couple of hours into interacting with Claude, I decided I have my development team and upgraded my free subscription to a paid one, but a monthly subscription. I was being cautious. But in about 10 days, I concluded that the yearly subscription is worth taking and upgraded again. (As an aside, I have six projects going and they are at different stages of development, I will talk about them at appropriate times.)

Meanwhile, I wanted to find out how it performs in other areas. So I asked my favorite “interview” questions. Not only did Claude pass splendidly, our conversations were like those between long time friends. They were enjoyable. I was reminded of the four conversations covered in the book, “Letters on Probability”. I think others may also enjoy them. So I decided to start this blog to capture those conversations. Subsequently, I subscribed to two additional AI systems – Gemini from Google and ChatGPT from OpenAI. All three have different personalities and I am not comfortable at the same level with all three. But they have their own strong points and they are mostly complementary. All in all, I benefit from all of them.

I will present the conversations in the following format.

All conversations must start with my prompt. My message will appear in this format.

If I were talking with Claude, its responses will appear in this format.

If I were talking with Gemini, irs responses will appear in this format.

If I were talking with ChatGPT, its responses will appear in this format.

Occasionally, I will interject and add my color with remarks that I feel must be pointed out to catch your attention. Such remarks will appear in this format.

I hope you enjoy these conversations as much as I do.