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Building Photo Critique: A Visual Development Timeline
About six weeks ago I started building a local web app to help me triage my photo archive — something like 10,000+ shots accumulated across a Leica Q3, Q2 Monochrom, and Hasselblad X2D. The idea was simple: scan a directory, run some technical analysis (blur, exposure, sharpness), hit the Anthropic API for AI critique, and…
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When Your AI Wastes My Money, I Should Get It Back (An open letter to Anthropic)
Posted to cksample.com — C.K. Sample III I use Claude in Cowork mode for a real project: building a photo critique and archive management tool for my photography business. It’s not a toy use case. Every session involves file reads, code edits, API calls, database changes. Claude is, for practical purposes, my senior developer on…
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Coding with Claude via Cowork: A Real Session, Warts and All
April 2026 I’ve been building a photo critique app for myself. Not a polished product — not yet — but a working local web tool that runs on my MacBook Air, points at my photo archive, and uses the Claude API to triage and critique images before I ever open Lightroom. It’s part of a…