Claude has been great, however not simply because its Sonnet or Opus fashions are so good. In actual fact, a number of Claude’s success comes from the instruments Anthropic has constructed round these fashions.
Anthropic has made an arsenal of Claude instruments, together with the brand new Claude Design, however the primary star amongst all of them remains to be Claude Code. I exploit it quite a bit. One factor I do with it’s have Claude Code write code, clearly, however I additionally use it for lots of standard non-code work.
Claude Code is a software that provides an agentic AI entry to a listing in your pc. It could actually run instructions, ship the end result again to the LLM, after which have the LLM generate extra instructions till it will get the job achieved. That command may be something.
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I requested Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to construct a simulation, and one winner was apparent
The LLM race stopped being an in depth contest fairly shortly.
Batch rename recordsdata
LLM-boosted PowerRename
Amir Bohlooli
That is the best one. If there’s a transparent sample within the file names and that’s all you wish to change, that is a type of duties you would in all probability do quicker in Excel than by asking an AI. However within the case of paperwork, pictures, and different media recordsdata, the place you need the identify to be descriptive, LLMs work very well.
So, for example, if I’ve a bunch of essay notes as PDF recordsdata, however they’re named “word (1).pdf,” I can shortly repair that with Claude Code. I open the folder, right-click, and launch a terminal in that listing (one of many perks of customizing the right-click menu in Home windows). Subsequent, I summon Claude. From there, I enter a immediate:
These are my lecture notes. Scan the primary few strains in every of those PDF recordsdata, then discover the primary matter, and rename the PDF to the subject. The identify ought to be not than two phrases. Use hyphens.
I press Enter. That’s it. Relying in your settings, Claude would possibly ask you for permission and offer you a preview of what it’s altering the names to. Settle for, and also you’re good.
Since I’m utilizing Claude within the terminal, nothing I do right here is exclusive to Claude. I simply occur to be utilizing Claude. You may set up Gemini or Codex within the terminal too and use these. They’re simply as succesful.
Write descriptions of pictures
Claude can see, so use that
Amir Bohlooli
Claude, and different huge fashions, usually are not simply textual content fashions. They will see photos too. Mix that with the workflow above, and now you may have it rename pictures to a neat description. I exploit a immediate like this:
These are screenshots. Have a look at the pictures after which write a transparent, concise, descriptive alt textual content for every. Rename the pictures to their alt textual content. Don’t use hyphens; use pure language. The names shouldn’t be longer than 80 characters.
Enter, preview, enter, and we’re good. That’s it. Your pictures must journey to Anthropic’s servers for this. In any case, the mannequin lives there, and to see the pictures, they must a minimum of quickly be uploaded. If that bothers you, you may attempt a neighborhood mannequin. I’ve used Gemma 4 for a similar process, and it’s actually succesful.
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Gemma 4 is severely succesful
Gemma 4 made native LLMs really feel sensible, non-public, and at last helpful on on a regular basis {hardware}.
Compress, resize, and crop pictures
And movies!
Amir Bohlooli
Claude can write code, and code can work with virtually something. Due to this fact, Claude Code can work with virtually something that has a CLI software or Python library. That features pictures and movies. The immediate is so simple as earlier than:
Crop these photos to a 16:9 ratio. Ensure that the primary window within the screenshot is centered. Depart the background because the padding; don’t crop it out.
What Claude will do is similar factor we might have achieved ourselves for a process like this: write a Python script. It’s nothing magical or new. The brand new half is that Claude writes and executes the script for you. If you happen to’ve obtained FFmpeg put in, you may let Claude know and ask it to make use of FFmpeg as an alternative. FFmpeg by itself can already do quite a bit.
You should use Claude Code within the Claude app, or summon it within the terminal. I favor utilizing it within the terminal as a result of it’s a lot simpler.
Take away empty recordsdata and notes
I’ve too lots of them
I write my journal in Obsidian. Though it’s my preferrred to journal day by day, I don’t at all times get to. Nevertheless, I’ve set my Obsidian vault to robotically create a journal entry for day by day and put the tags and such in it. The result’s that if I don’t journal as we speak, there’s nonetheless a journal entry that exists. It isn’t precisely empty as a result of it has these tags pre-filled, but it surely’s nonetheless simply taking on area and deceptive me. There have been many occasions after I click on a journal entry to learn it, solely to see it’s truly clean.
We are able to shortly repair this with Claude Code. Nevertheless, this can be a nice instance of a damaging process, the place utilizing AI might go incorrect. What if Claude by chance deletes non-empty journal entries? We do not need that to occur, however we all know that LLMs are nonetheless susceptible to hallucinations. So, we take a safer method. we’re not going to straight up ask it to delete them. AI brokers can go rogue, as we’ve all seen. In a case like this, it’s finest to do it in a number of steps.
First, we’ll ask Claude to flag the empty notes:
That is my journal. There are some notes in it which can be primarily empty. They’ve solely the date and a journal tag. A few of them even have the to-do process record. However they don’t have precise journal content material. Discover these empty entries and record them for me.
We’ve obtained outcomes. However we gained’t ask it to delete them simply but. As a substitute, we’ll ask it to maneuver them to a brand new folder referred to as “clean.”
Make a folder referred to as “clean” and transfer all the notes you flagged there.
Now, we’ll go check out the notes. Utilizing the preview pane in File Explorer — a neat trick, by the best way — I can see that they’re truly empty. So, I can delete them. Achieved.
Run semantic evaluation
On your self?
On that very same word, I can use Claude for rather more and actually put the LLM half to work. One attention-grabbing use case is semantic evaluation. Obsidian’s comparatively new Database characteristic is nice, but it surely’s not of a lot use with out some actually good word properties. I can use Claude to make these properties with a immediate like this:
That is my journal. These are MD recordsdata written in Obsidian. Analyze them and, for every of those, set a price from one in every of these seven: agitation, descent, reflection, battle, longing, statement, reconstruction. This worth ought to be set primarily based on the semantic content material of the entry.
I obtained a desk. I checked it, and it was correct. Then I accepted the edits, and Claude went forward and added the property to the notes. Now, after I verify the journal database in Obsidian, it has some attention-grabbing information.
I didn’t feed Claude the total factor. This was for demonstration functions — I’d fairly not add my private journal to Anthropic’s servers. That’s what a neighborhood LLM is for, and bear in mind, you can use Claude Code with a neighborhood LLM.
Claude Code is far more than a coding software
Claude Code is bought as a coding software as a result of, nicely, it could write code. However what makes it helpful shouldn’t be the code half. It’s the truth that it could have a look at a folder, perceive what’s inside it, run instructions, make modifications, after which verify its personal work. That makes it helpful for all types of boring file work that might in any other case take an excessive amount of clicking, an excessive amount of scripting, or an excessive amount of endurance.
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