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I'm continually impressed with Claude's ability to create its own benchmarking systems and rip through a series of hypotheses about how to achieve some hard-to-define optimal outcome.
I recommend trying this when you're deep into a problem looking for an optimal path: give the agent a laboratory.
Give Your Agent a Laboratory, Pt. II
Writing
The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the *less* valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the *Economist* shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.
If the patient asks, "Will this hurt?" Always reply with, "Not as much as the thing you did to get yourself in this situation.
Knot Tying Tutorial
Tom Sachs
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