7 things i've learned about when NOT to use Claude, which took longer than learning when to use it

everyone shares their use cases. here's the inverse, which i think is more useful and which cost me real time to learn. when i haven't thought about the problem myself yet. if i go to it first, i get its framing, and its framing becomes mine before i've had my own. i now force myself to have a rough take before i open the chat, even a bad one, so i'm reacting rather than being led. for anything where the value is in the struggle. i'm learning a hard technical subject, and it can explain anything instantly,