I use Claude regularly for extracting the important ideas out of articles I feel that if I read I would be disappointed that I spent that amount of time. It's the equivalent of watching a video on YouTube at 2x speed. Sometimes you just need a tool or technique to discern for you whether a wall of text is worth your time before you give your time to that wall of text. Often I only learn one or two useful details from a long article whose author is conditioned to hit a word count rather than cogently and quickly getting to the fucking meat. Having read many thousands of articles before LLMs came along I feel confident that Clause is getting the salient points out better than the author could.

On the writing side it's similar. I think it's time consuming to communicate an otherwise good idea cogently, and LLMs are good at that. If I think I know what I'm going to say and how I'll say it as soon as I start typing, like this comment, I'll just type it into the field and post as is. But if I feel I need help tightening it up I'll copy paste into Claude to clean it up, then paste it back in. That makes me reader's life easier, even if they end up using an LLM on the other end.