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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…
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Building a photo management and critique tool using Claude.ai that I’ve been thinking of building for years
I have a problem that a lot of serious photographers share: the backlog. Not a few weeks behind — a genuine, multi-year archive with over 10,000 shots sitting unreviewed. So I built a triage tool. Not by myself — I built it with Claude.