Sorry, is this new? Providing the right data to LLMs supercharges them. Yes, I agree. I've been doing this since March 2025 when there was a blog post about using MCP on HN. I'm not the only one who's doing that.
I've written my whole lifestory, the parts I'm willing to share that is, and posted it in Claude. It helped me way better with all kinds of things. It took me 2 days to write without formatting, pretty much how I write all my HN comments (but then 2 days straight: eat, sleep, write).
I've also exported all my notes, but it's too big for the context. That's why I wrote my life story.
From a practical standpoint I think the focus is on context management. Obsidian can help with this (I haven't used it so don't know the details). For code, it means doing things like static and dynamic analysis to see which functions calls what and create a topology of function calls and send that as context, then Claude Code can more easily know what to edit, and it doesn't need to read all the code.
Curious, what did you get out of it? Counseling? Some action plan? A reflection? Seems intriguing to do, but would like to know how it helped you exactly if you don’t mind sharing.
Career planning at the moment, tailoring resumes. Currently, it's not tailoring it well enough yet because it's hallucinating too much, so I need to write a specific prompt for that. But I know for work, where I do similar things (text generation with a human in the loop), that I can tackle that problem.
So yea, I definitely, add to the "AI generated" text part but I read over all the texts, and usually they don't get sent out. Ultimately, it's still a lot quicker to do it this way.
For career planning, so far it hasn't beaten my own insights but it came close. For example, it mentioned that I should actually be a developer advocate instead of a software engineer. 2 to 3 years ago I came to that same thought. I ultimately rejected the idea due to how I am but it is a good one to think about.
What I see now, I think the best job for me would be a tech consultant. Or as I'd also like to call it: a data analyst that spots problems and then uses his software engineering or teaching skills to solve that problem. I don't think that job has a good catch all title as it is a pretty generalist job. I'm currently at a company that allows me to do this but the pay is quite low, so I'm looking for a tech company where I could do something similar. Maybe a product manager role? It really depends on the company culture.
What I also noticed it did better: it doesn't reduce me to data engineering anymore. It understands that I aspire to learn everything and anything I can get my hands on. It's my mode of living and Claude understands that.
So nothing too spectacular yet, but it'll come. It requires more prompt/context engineering and fine tuning of certain things. I didn't get around to it yet.
> What I also noticed it did better: it doesn't reduce me to data engineering anymore. It understands that I aspire to learn everything and anything I can get my hands on. It's my mode of living and Claude understands that.
I'm really glad you are getting some personal growth out of these tools, but I hesitate to give Claude as much credit as you do. And I'm really cautious about saying Claude "understands" because that word has many meanings and it isn't clear which ones apply hear.
What I'm hearing is that you use it like a kind of rubber-duck debugger. Except this is a special rubber duck because it can replay/rephrase what you said.
I've written my whole lifestory, the parts I'm willing to share that is, and posted it in Claude. It helped me way better with all kinds of things. It took me 2 days to write without formatting, pretty much how I write all my HN comments (but then 2 days straight: eat, sleep, write).
I've also exported all my notes, but it's too big for the context. That's why I wrote my life story.
From a practical standpoint I think the focus is on context management. Obsidian can help with this (I haven't used it so don't know the details). For code, it means doing things like static and dynamic analysis to see which functions calls what and create a topology of function calls and send that as context, then Claude Code can more easily know what to edit, and it doesn't need to read all the code.