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    Ben Tossell Turns to Claude for Creative Thinking

    Reply highlights AI as his unique tool for generating ideas.

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    Ben Tossell, a UK-based builder and investor who founded Makerpad acquired by Zapier and runs the Ben's Bites AI newsletter and community with 160k+ subscribers, replied to @mattshumer_. He stated that Claude is the one tool he uses, specifically for creative thinking and ideating tasks where he gets no comparable output elsewhere. The comment stands as a single attributed post among visible replies on the platform. No other sources in the packet confirm or expand on the remark.

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    757 reposts

    Sentiment

    Positive79.6%20.4%Negative

    Based on 257 sentiment-bearing replies from 240 accounts across 10 conversations.

    26 Sources

    @bentossell@mattshumer_ this makes me sad
    @mattshumer_@bentossell Yep… it’s still not super close IMO I don’t get why it’s so hard to catch up there
    @rileybrownMy biggest wow moment using GPT 6 Astra had nothing to do with the visual posts you've been seeing... Don't get me wrong, those are awesome and fun... But the biggest wow moment was when I gave Astra context over everything about my business and then gave it the prompt below. Email, Slack, Business Texts, Notion, and every meeting note... everything I've been doing (Which involves like 20 different projects with many teams over the past few months)... Here's the prompt I used which was not really well thought out just a wispr flow ramble... All I can say is the response to this prompt was the most useful thing an AI has ever given me... ""I'm about to plan the next month, quarter, and year" Make one document that aligns me on all of those timeframes. Look for my flaws, look for my strengths, and highlight those. Look at ALL of my activities, which activities do you think i'm wasting the most time. Which activities should I do more of? Of the people I work with who seem the most dependable? Where am I the least dependable? If I could only upskill in one area over the next year what would it be and why? Where can I organize my company better, and how would I do that? Use text when necessary, use charts/visuals when necessary, but never ever fill space for the sake of it. Every graphic and word should matter. I want to know about finances, relationships, business model, everything. ""
    @bossricesharkI've come to realize the number one thing when a new model drops is you stop and read the vibe check. You can really see from their use which one is stronger where and better understand where to use in your day ti day. I can't recommend @every enough. Best subscription you can get for alpha in an industry this fast.
    @danshipperRT @bossriceshark: I've come to realize the number one thing when a new model drops is you stop and read the vibe check. You can really se…
    @sherwinwuThis was true for me since 5.5. But it's also true that Astra with _all_ of your business context is even better! The challenge now is finding the right question or prompt to leverage it.
    @markchen90RT @rileybrown: My biggest wow moment using GPT 6 Astra had nothing to do with the visual posts you've been seeing... Don't get me wrong, t…
    @gregisenberg9 cool GPT 6 Astra prompts worth trying: 1. The bill renegotiator. "Go through my internet, phone, and software bills, jump into each provider's chat support, and negotiate them down or cancel what I'm not using." 2. Turn an agency into software. “Pick one service business in [niche] and reverse-engineer the exact workflow they sell to clients. Break it into steps, tools used, inputs, outputs, human judgment points, and places where the work gets slow or expensive. Then design the simplest AI product that could replace the first version of that service and charge $500-$5,000/month.” 3. Garage sale flipper. "Watch Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist in my city for [cameras / furniture / bikes] listed way under market, and text me the second one's mispriced with the link." 4. Create my 1 person company dashboard. “Look at my docs, notes, Stripe exports, analytics, customer calls, and project list, then build a weekly operator dashboard. I want to know what is making money, what is wasting time, what customers are asking for, what I should stop doing, and the three highest-leverage actions for next week. Be blunt and show your work.” 5. Audit my company for agent opportunities. “Look at how this business works and find the tasks we should give to agents before hiring another person. For each task, estimate the current human time, the cost of mistakes, the tools involved, the difficulty of automating it, and the first safe version we could deploy. Prioritize things that save money or create revenue within 30 days.” 6. Be my browser operator. “Use the browser to complete this workflow: [workflow]. As you go, click through the actual sites, collect the data, fill the forms where appropriate, and keep notes on what broke or slowed you down. When you’re done, give me the output, the repeatable SOP, and the automation plan so this can become an agent.” 7. The whole QA team. "Every night, open my app on a real phone, go through signup, checkout, and the main flows, and screenshot anything that's broken or confusing." 8. The competitor spy. "Sign up for my top 3 competitors, sit inside their product and their emails, and send me a monthly report on every new feature, price change, and thing they do better than us." 9. Make a game people would actually play for 5 minutes as a lead magnet “Build a browser game around this mechanic: [mechanic]. Don’t just make a cute demo; add progression, tension, scoring, failure, polish, and one reason someone would send it to a friend. Then add lead capture (email/sms), it needs to tie into my core product which sells XYZ.”
    @_NathanCalvinthis is very impressive
    @petergostevOne thing to add - Astra really 'gets' what you mean. The only other model ever did that was Fable. After submitting the task, I keep catching myself thinking that I should have given it a bit more explanation about how it should approach it, and then I read what it is planning to do and every time it's like "oh yeah it's doing exactly how I thought it should go about things". This is such a big deal, because this removes the burden from you always being the absolute expert at the task so you can do more and more, without second guessing if the agent has any idea what its doing.

    26 Sources

    @bentossell@mattshumer_ this makes me sad
    @mattshumer_@bentossell Yep… it’s still not super close IMO I don’t get why it’s so hard to catch up there
    @rileybrownMy biggest wow moment using GPT 6 Astra had nothing to do with the visual posts you've been seeing... Don't get me wrong, those are awesome and fun... But the biggest wow moment was when I gave Astra context over everything about my business and then gave it the prompt below. Email, Slack, Business Texts, Notion, and every meeting note... everything I've been doing (Which involves like 20 different projects with many teams over the past few months)... Here's the prompt I used which was not really well thought out just a wispr flow ramble... All I can say is the response to this prompt was the most useful thing an AI has ever given me... ""I'm about to plan the next month, quarter, and year" Make one document that aligns me on all of those timeframes. Look for my flaws, look for my strengths, and highlight those. Look at ALL of my activities, which activities do you think i'm wasting the most time. Which activities should I do more of? Of the people I work with who seem the most dependable? Where am I the least dependable? If I could only upskill in one area over the next year what would it be and why? Where can I organize my company better, and how would I do that? Use text when necessary, use charts/visuals when necessary, but never ever fill space for the sake of it. Every graphic and word should matter. I want to know about finances, relationships, business model, everything. ""
    @bossricesharkI've come to realize the number one thing when a new model drops is you stop and read the vibe check. You can really see from their use which one is stronger where and better understand where to use in your day ti day. I can't recommend @every enough. Best subscription you can get for alpha in an industry this fast.
    @danshipperRT @bossriceshark: I've come to realize the number one thing when a new model drops is you stop and read the vibe check. You can really se…
    @sherwinwuThis was true for me since 5.5. But it's also true that Astra with _all_ of your business context is even better! The challenge now is finding the right question or prompt to leverage it.
    @markchen90RT @rileybrown: My biggest wow moment using GPT 6 Astra had nothing to do with the visual posts you've been seeing... Don't get me wrong, t…
    @gregisenberg9 cool GPT 6 Astra prompts worth trying: 1. The bill renegotiator. "Go through my internet, phone, and software bills, jump into each provider's chat support, and negotiate them down or cancel what I'm not using." 2. Turn an agency into software. “Pick one service business in [niche] and reverse-engineer the exact workflow they sell to clients. Break it into steps, tools used, inputs, outputs, human judgment points, and places where the work gets slow or expensive. Then design the simplest AI product that could replace the first version of that service and charge $500-$5,000/month.” 3. Garage sale flipper. "Watch Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist in my city for [cameras / furniture / bikes] listed way under market, and text me the second one's mispriced with the link." 4. Create my 1 person company dashboard. “Look at my docs, notes, Stripe exports, analytics, customer calls, and project list, then build a weekly operator dashboard. I want to know what is making money, what is wasting time, what customers are asking for, what I should stop doing, and the three highest-leverage actions for next week. Be blunt and show your work.” 5. Audit my company for agent opportunities. “Look at how this business works and find the tasks we should give to agents before hiring another person. For each task, estimate the current human time, the cost of mistakes, the tools involved, the difficulty of automating it, and the first safe version we could deploy. Prioritize things that save money or create revenue within 30 days.” 6. Be my browser operator. “Use the browser to complete this workflow: [workflow]. As you go, click through the actual sites, collect the data, fill the forms where appropriate, and keep notes on what broke or slowed you down. When you’re done, give me the output, the repeatable SOP, and the automation plan so this can become an agent.” 7. The whole QA team. "Every night, open my app on a real phone, go through signup, checkout, and the main flows, and screenshot anything that's broken or confusing." 8. The competitor spy. "Sign up for my top 3 competitors, sit inside their product and their emails, and send me a monthly report on every new feature, price change, and thing they do better than us." 9. Make a game people would actually play for 5 minutes as a lead magnet “Build a browser game around this mechanic: [mechanic]. Don’t just make a cute demo; add progression, tension, scoring, failure, polish, and one reason someone would send it to a friend. Then add lead capture (email/sms), it needs to tie into my core product which sells XYZ.”
    @_NathanCalvinthis is very impressive
    @petergostevOne thing to add - Astra really 'gets' what you mean. The only other model ever did that was Fable. After submitting the task, I keep catching myself thinking that I should have given it a bit more explanation about how it should approach it, and then I read what it is planning to do and every time it's like "oh yeah it's doing exactly how I thought it should go about things". This is such a big deal, because this removes the burden from you always being the absolute expert at the task so you can do more and more, without second guessing if the agent has any idea what its doing.