Of course it matters. If you used Claude just to accelerate production, let's say it makes you twice as productive. That means if you budget 30 minutes to do something, if Claude stops working, it means it'll take you 60. Or you just use the 30 and its half as good, not as polished, any number of things. Particularly if you know claude is really good at repetitive tasks, such as making sure all the font are the same size so you leave that until the end so you can focus on content.

The example are contrived, but still very real.

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solid_fuel 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> such as making sure all the font are the same size so you leave that until the end so you can focus on content.

`ctrl-a`, select desired font in style dropdown, done.

Do you perhaps have a better example?

The criticism people are throwing out here is that while users often claim that they're only using claude to speed up the exact thing they would have done anyway, they are in fact ceding control and critical thinking to claude and just accepting what it does as if it were what they would have done.

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xattt a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Clearly, this mess would have been avoided by using two Claudes to cut prep time to 15 minutes.

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wongarsu a day ago | parent | next [-]

People with more budget than me give the task of polishing up the powerpoint to an assistant. They don't hire 20 assistants to have the work done 20 times as fast, but that does not negate that having one assistant do it does free up some of their time

Responsible use of Claude behaves much the same, just within my budget

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dmd a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huang needed to have a baby in 3 months, so,

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Raed667 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

why stop there? i hear Boris Cherny has thousands of instances running in parallel, he can do it in milliseconds

	▲	jgalt212 a day ago \| parent [-]
		He makes Gary Tan seem thrifty.

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globular-toast a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, if you were cutting deadlines this fine, with or without AI, then it was only a matter of time before your luck ran out.

> Particularly if you know claude is really good at repetitive tasks, such as making sure all the font are the same size so you leave that until the end so you can focus on content.

Surely you can come up with a better example than something that's solved by even the most basic tools we've had for decades at this point?