I’ve been using Claude for about 6 months and have fallen into a pattern that seems to work for me. If you are new to Agentic development this may help you. If you’ve been at it for a while, maybe you want to compare how we differ and hopefully take something away (or even better, send me a tip). I asked Claude to take a look at the logs from my personal account (not my work account) and tell me how I used it, turns out it’s basically the same. The image above and the content below is what it came up with. One of the things we’ve done since day one at Relational AI is take the latest and greatest database research and add it to the product. We have a whole bunch of researchers on staff and collaborate with many others in academia. Normally it would take a long time to go from published paper to production code, but that time is becoming shorter and shorter.
I start off by getting a PDF of a recently published paper of interest. If it has code it’s better, but as long as the idea is captured in the paper, Claude can figure it out. I start out by asking Claude to read the paper, then I use the first set of magic words:
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