An AI-skeptical senior engineer's guide to making the most of Claude

I&rsquo;ve been largely hands-off with LLMs after testing the waters from time to time and not finding much utility in tech that can inherently lie to you. Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude series of models became unexpectedly, incredibly capable sometime back in November or December (just as my second kid was born so no wonder I missed the news), especially compared to previous times I&rsquo;d used it.…