Every time I try to use Claude Desktop, I quickly feel like it's like trying to type wearing mittens. No bueno, at least for me.

My wife calls Claude my girlfriend.

I do a ton of programming but I also use it to learn all kinds of stuff. I'm into physics, history and philosophy and have done wonderful explorations.

Now I tell it what I had for breakfast just to see what it says. Half the time it says something interesting and I end up exploring another new thing.

"My people" for sure and everyone is mad at me because I think that.

Also, I don't care what they think. I am all about the fun.

The brainstorming, investigation and planning are so much fun, aren't they?

Having an infinitely patient, super smart colleague available all the time is amazing.

I have been making web apps for years. A few year ago I converted my base stack into a scaffold that lets me spin up a full working project with API, CLI and UI.

I use NodeJS with a highly structured ExpressJS app for the API. It uses an npm module, tools-library-dot-d to implement a carefully scooped plugin structure for endpoints, data model and data mapping. It has built-in authentication and database (sqlite).

Nuxt/Vue/Vuetify/Pinia for the UI. It has a few components that implement things (like navigation) the way I like. It supports login and user editing.

The stack includes a utility that looks at a directory for executable CLI tools (usually NodeJS or BASH) and adds them to the session PATH. The API stack has boilerplate to treat CLI apps as data-model services.

Does that help?

I'm with you so much. I had to buy the big Max plan. My wife calls Claude my new girlfriend. (Good thing she's ok with being in a cyber-thruple .)

I'm having more fun than I've had in years.