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  "title": "Non-Coding Claude Use Cases: A Two-Month Audit",
  "content": "*[日本語版](https://whtwnd.com/joshuashew.bsky.social/3mirz5gmwom2r)*\n\n## Prompt\n\n> Give me a picture of all the non-coding tasks I use Claude for. Past 2 months sample: be exhaustive in your search. Bullet point list of discrete task and task types.\n\n---\n\n## Research & Synthesis\n\n- Current events briefings (Ukraine war update, US news summary, Iran conflict coverage)\n- Deep research on AI energy/data center consumption with quantitative modeling\n- Literature review: transformer attention mechanisms and prompt ordering (annotated bibliography)\n- Literature review: synthetic data / model collapse (annotated bibliography, citation impact analysis)\n- Literature review: animal and AI sentience / pain experience\n- Research on Bluesky MAU growth with projection modeling and Manifold market analysis\n- Company profile research (Third Way Health; Northwood Space/Bridgit Mendler)\n- Organic food certification and health literature review\n- Heating oil pricing history and market context\n- Open source license comparisons (MIT vs GPL, MIT vs CC BY-SA)\n- Prediction market orientation and strategy session (Manifold)\n- Renew Northeast v. DOI lawsuit research\n- Gray-market peptide culture research\n- Disney Channel talent pipeline history\n- B Corp certification explanation and critique\n- Empire of AI fact-check (water use correction)\n- FrontierMath open problems video transcript and synthesis\n- Energy market clearing price mechanics\n\n## Data Visualization\n\n- Claude Code changelog composition chart (multi-panel, publication-quality for Bluesky)\n- Claude system prompt length over time (single-source-verified, Saloni Dattani style)\n- Bluesky MAU growth with regression fits and prediction intervals\n- Heating oil price history (interactive Chart.js, embedded HTML artifact)\n- AI energy consumption vs. city residential comparison\n- Compound interest interactive visualization\n- US electricity + AI data center energy (multi-session, published to Bluesky/WhiteWind)\n\n## Writing, Editing & Voice\n\n- Bluesky draft refinement and voice coaching (preserving first-person casual register)\n- Philosophy of mind reply drafting (Carchidi article response)\n- Rationalism/Bayesian discourse post analysis and reply drafting\n- Workplace instructor performance report (voice-matched to my communication style)\n- Product feature request draft (tightening + word choice)\n- User preferences redesign (structured interview + full draft)\n\n## Bluesky / Social Media Tasks\n\n- Social graph analysis (mutual follow/block overlap for specific profiles)\n- Engagement overlap analysis (quote post vs. original post likers)\n- BFS traversal to find specific posts in quote chains\n- Labeler audit: hidden/warned replies from subscribed labelers\n- Finding specific posts (by topic, content, author)\n- Explaining posts / threads by others\n- Alt-text generation for Bluesky image post\n- Word/terminology lookup for drafting a reply\n- Bluesky thread dataset generation for LLM consumption (corpus building)\n\n## Fact-Checking & Claim Verification\n\n- SIFT analysis of Bluesky claim (model collapse / synthetic data)\n- Empire of AI water use correction (source-tracing errata)\n- Yellowstone wolf reintroduction claim verification (including catching Claude's own confabulation on researcher attributions)\n- B Corp certification claims\n- Organic food health claims\n\n## Medical / Health Consultation\n\n- Medical consultation for a partner's positional vertigo (differential diagnosis + home management)\n- Kombucha consumption limits\n- Cannabis-related vision impairment (HPPD, clinical terminology) — informational research, not personal experience\n- Historical under-5 mortality rates across millennia\n\n## Logistics & Planning\n\n- Day trip planning (structured intake + map + itinerary)\n- Movie tickets, parking, and showtime logistics\n- Navigation to a specific location for a work errand\n- Thermostat recommendation (weather-contextualized)\n\n## Operational / Work Tasks\n\n- Parent conference scheduling: email history search for contacts + bulk draft creation\n- Student learning plan retrieval from past conversations\n- Instructor performance report drafting\n\n## Explanation & Education\n\n- Newcomb's Problem and decision theory (CDT vs EDT vs FDT)\n- Common knowledge / game theory (ChatGPT as cultural moment)\n- Transformer attention and \"reading twice\" mechanistic explanation\n- Simondon allagmatics applied to prompt engineering\n- Understanding Bluesky posts with philosophical content\n- Kolmogorov complexity and the Krebs cycle argument\n- Clearing price / merit order mechanics in energy markets\n- Logical distinction between ∀n P(n) and ∀n P(n)→P(n+1)\n- ADBOC (agree denotationally, disagree connotationally)\n- AT Protocol / Bluesky architecture deep dive\n- margin.at architecture and personal PDS data\n- System prompt bloat vs. \"invisible quantization\"\n- Pingbacks in blogging\n- B Corp scoring\n- Color fidelity across Apple displays (ΔE_ok, JND testing)\n- Vocal range classification\n- Cooling fresh bread (food science)\n- Iodized salt policy (US and global)\n- Jaw morphology and language\n- Five-year mortality rates across human history\n- Passport renewal procedural research (dual citizenship complexity)\n\n## Media Consumption Support\n\n- Book club refresher (*Uncommon Service*, chapters 2–6, spoken-word format)\n- Video summaries/recaps (Musk/Patel/Collison interview; Nick Fuentes essay; Max Deutsch chess; motorcycle China trip; evolution game)\n- Video transcript structuring (FrontierMath open problems)\n- Yellowstone wolf reintroduction video transcript + analysis (multiple sessions)\n- Finding a quote timestamp in a transcript\n- Identifying a childhood video game\n- Finding a link to a specific news story (dog cancer / AI mRNA vaccine)\n- Learning about how people find pirated audiobooks (informational)\n\n## Troubleshooting & How-To (Non-Coding)\n\n- iPhone call silencing (Action Button + Control Center workaround)\n- iPhone voice recording for presentations (live, 20-minute situation)\n- macOS keyboard remapping (Logitech Wave Keys, Fn key limitation)\n- Safari per-page cache clearing\n- Windows monitor connection failure diagnosis (Intel Arc driver corruption)\n- margin.at Chrome extension authentication debugging\n- White noise/soundscapes on macOS + Spotify alternatives\n- Recording presentation audio (last-minute setup advice)\n\n## Terminology & Language\n\n- \"Deconverted\" / apostate (word lookup)\n- \"Circuitous\" in social graph context\n- \"The lady doth protest too much\" (Hamlet origin + Elizabethan vs. modern meaning)\n- \"Operationalizable\" alternatives\n- Standard English name for mapo tofu\n\n## Cooking & Food\n\n- TVP substitution in mapo tofu (with measurement conversions)\n- Vegetarian Indian menu recommendation (structured interview → recommendation)\n",
  "createdAt": "2026-04-01T15:00:00.000Z",
  "visibility": "public"
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