Stephen Downes

More on the use of Claude as a teaching tool. In this case Robin Moffatt uses Claude to learn about dbt (data build tool), "an open-source tool that lets data engineers write the transformation layer of a data pipeline as modular SQL" (if you can even find a human to teach that to you, congrats). Moffatt learns a few lessons along the way (lessons I've also learned, so I can confirm their veracity): begin by having Claude learn the topic as well as possible and to write a CLAUDE.md file for itself, so that each time it refreshes it remembers what it's doing and why; and to remind Claude to not make assumptions or guess about things, in an effort to minimize hallucinations and slop (this is really important, in my experience).