Cover of Being Productive with Claude by Alex Merced

Being Productive with Claude

Published by Self-published · Tech

A practical guide to Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Dispatch for AI-powered development.

About the author: Alex Merced is Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and the author of 77 books on data, AI, economics, fiction, and tabletop RPGs. His story is on WhoIsAlexMerced.com.

Who this book is for

Anyone who wants consistent, repeatable results from Claude for coding and non-coding work, from developers who delegate to technical generalists and curious newcomers. You do not need to be a professional developer for most of it.

Table of contents

  1. What Is Anthropic
  2. What Is Claude
  3. The Claude Way of Working
  4. Claude.ai: The Web and Desktop Experience
  5. Claude on Your Phone: Mobile and Claude Dispatch
  6. Claude Code: The Terminal Agent
  7. A Field Guide to Claude Use Cases
  8. Research, Documents, and Presentations
  9. Building and Sharing Artifacts
  10. Building Websites with Claude Code
  11. Building Desktop Applications with Claude Code
  12. Prompting Mastery and Your Own Claude Workflow

Excerpt

The first time I ran Claude Code on a real project, I expected a capable autocomplete. What I got was something closer to a junior developer who had already read the entire codebase, remembered every decision I had made in the last three sessions, and asked clarifying questions before touching anything it was not sure about. That experience changed how I thought about working with AI tools. It stopped being a question of whether to use them and became a question of how to design the working relationship deliberately.

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