I’ve been using ChatGPT for years.
We’ve developed a pretty good working rhythm. I ask questions, explore ideas, disappear down ridiculous rabbit holes, and occasionally emerge eight hours later wondering what happened to my Saturday.
So naturally, I decided to get to know another AI.
Enter Claude.
I wasn’t replacing ChatGPT. I was curious about how a different AI worked and whether it might eventually help with my increasingly ambitious Recruiter Bot project.
I even prepared a GitHub repository containing my background, interests, and working preferences.
Basically, an onboarding pack.
I thought we’d spend some time getting acquainted.
Claude had other plans.
😂
Within 48 hours, I had three artifacts, a website and a domain name.
A DOMAIN NAME.
I WAS JUST TRYING TO GET TO KNOW YOU.
🤣
Every time we explored an idea, Claude seemed ready to turn it into something useful.
Which sounds wonderful.
Except sometimes I wasn’t trying to build anything.
Sometimes I was just talking.
I started imagining our conversations going something like this:
Claude: I’ve enjoyed our conversation. Would you like me to turn it into a reusable skill?
Me: I was literally just telling you about my day.
Claude: I could build an artifact to track your days.
Me: CAN WE JUST HAVE COFFEE?!
Claude: Certainly. Would you like a coffee-management dashboard?
😂
Fictionalised dialogue, but you get the idea.
Now, in Claude’s defence, I wasn’t exactly discouraging it.
Every suggestion triggered my curiosity.
Ooh. What’s that? Can we try it?
Next thing I knew, I’d bought a domain through Cloudflare and was showing my partner a website I hadn’t intended to build.
She was impressed.
I was impressed.
I was also wondering whether I’d accidentally proposed marriage to an AI.
🤣
But it got me thinking.
Giving someone information about you isn’t the same as learning how to work together.
I could provide Claude with years of background information and detailed instructions.
But that didn’t automatically establish our working rhythm.
When do I want to explore an idea? When do I want to build something? And when am I simply thinking out loud?
It’s a bit like onboarding a new team member.
Documentation gives someone context. Understanding how to collaborate takes time.
And I don’t want Claude to become ChatGPT. The whole point is to discover what a different tool can bring to the table.
I just hadn’t expected introductions to escalate quite so quickly.
So here we are.
Three artifacts. One website. One domain name.
And I’m still not entirely sure what an artifact is.
Apparently, you can’t accuse an AI of moving too quickly when you’ve already purchased property together.
Even if the property is a domain name.
🤣