I just started using Claude AI in my work. It's a great little AI assistant, even on the FREE tier. It helps with writing emails and quickly generating code. Of course, you still may have to edit what it produces since it's not always perfect, but at least it can help get you started.
Along with the very helpful AI chatbot, Claude allows you to create "Artifacts", which are mini Apps capable of doing simple and sometimes silly things. The Inspiration Artifacts are accessible from the Artifacts button in the Claude web UI or desktop UI.
I tried the "How petty are you?" just for laughs. It didn't disappoint with its snarky response to my gripe about the fact that in the Save dialogue files and folders are grouped by date rather than sorted alphabetically:
Claude says that's a "reasonable gripe" and gave me 35% on the Pettiness-o-meter. Here's the full response from Claude:
"Windows save dialogs automatically group files by date rather than sort by name "
Analysis
Ah yes, the classic battle between human logic and Microsoft's mysterious ways - wanting files alphabetically sorted is like asking for your socks to be organized by color instead of 'that pile over there.'
Advice
Try right-clicking in the dialog and changing the view settings, or embrace the chaos and pretend you're a digital archaeologist excavating files by their creation date!
Claude also has several other interesting Artifacts to try out, including but not limited to:
- Flash card generator
- Writing Editor
- Code Converter
- Forest Explorer
- Your Life in Weeks
- Interactive Drum Machine
- Join Dots
- 3 Truths and a Hallucination
- Emoji Charades
- Piano
- Word Cloud Maker
- The Way of Code (3 versions)
The best part is you can create your own and publish the Artifacts to Claude.ai. Creating them only requires a free Claude "subscription" and a little imagination with the prompt. The Inspiration Artifacts all display their creation prompts at the bottom of the screen to show you how they were created.
Here's the prompt for the Pettiness Meter App I used above:
"Build me pettiness meter app that measure how petty the user’s grievances are from ‘legitimate concern’ to ‘let it go’, with a visual scale to show where they fall. The user should be able to key in their grievance and we should use Claude API to analyze the grievance. Make this fun and interactive. There should be an actual gauge meter!"
Easy peasy. Let's learn AI and show the world some 愛 (pronounced "Ai". It's the Japanese word for Love).
