I Switched 50% of My AI Work to Claude, Here's Why

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Jeff Su says Claude now handles over 50% of his AI workload, up from barely using it a year ago, because it beats ChatGPT and Google Gemini at writing, interactive visuals, and data analysis. Setup: he leaves Claude’s personal preferences (its custom-instructions equivalent) blank because its default output is already well structured, enables artifacts and the analysis tool under feature preview, connects Google Drive on the paid plan, and keeps LaTeX rendering off. Artifacts: Claude drafts a blog post from a product design document in a separate window, makes real-time follow-up edits there, writes a working Google Apps Script to format Google Slides speaker notes despite Jeff having no coding background, and can fix its own errors when asked. He finds preset writing styles unnecessary (normal works ‘99% of the time’) and the create-your-own-style feature disappointing. Projects — his favorite feature — separate project-level context (e.g. a product overview document) from chat-level context (e.g. previous announcement newsletters), producing tailored outputs he says get him 80% of the way there; he notes projects is paid and advises sticking with ChatGPT or Gemini if you can only pay for one tool unless your job is writing- or coding-heavy. Claude also turned Google’s AI agents white paper into an interactive dashboard and infographic (downloadable as SVG), and analyzed messy transaction CSV data, finding subscriptions were 56% of transactions versus Gumroad’s 44%, yet Gumroad generated higher revenue — he verified the subscription total of $2,862 against the raw data.

Key takeaways

Jeff leaves Claude’s personal preferences blank, enables artifacts and the analysis tool, connects Google Drive, and disables prompt examples to reduce clutter.
Artifacts gives complex text, code, and charts a separate editable window, and Claude can troubleshoot and fix its own errors when prompted.
Projects separate project-level context (shared documents) from chat-level context (examples per chat), which Jeff says gets his product-announcement drafts 80% of the way there.
Include the keyword ‘interactive’ or ‘visualize’ in prompts to get dashboards, funnel charts, and infographics out of artifacts.
In his data example, Claude reported subscriptions at 56% of transactions vs Gumroad’s 44%, with subscriptions totaling $2,862 — a figure Jeff verified against the raw CSV.

Episode details: published February 11, 2025 · 12:44 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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