Learning all about Claude

Over the past few years I have been using a mixture of free and paid LLMs. My first paid account was with OpenAI although I stopped that not too long ago and switched to Gemini, mainly to try out Nano Banana and see what all the fuss was about, but also to just get a bit more exposure to a different model that was that basis of the Google Generative AI Leader certificate that I just completed. This was before Trump fired Anthropic "like dogs" for daring to put limits on Claude being used for killer robots and mass surveillance of US citizens.

After that, Sam Altman stepped in to take on the business Anthropic was removed from, which triggered a wave of users abandoning ChatGPT in protest. So you could say I left Open AI before it was cool!

Anyway, I'm having a go at improving my skills with Claude and luckily they have a bunch of free courses available which you can check out here: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/. I am starting with "Claude 101", naturally, so I'll see how it goes and report back. So far, looking at the curriculum, it seems like a good overview of the main ways to think about organising yourself beyond just basic prompts and getting into some of the other features like projects, artifacts and skills. A good place to get started.