Claude Shrank My 40-Page PDF Into 9 Bullets I Could Use

Claude made this faster once I stopped using it wrong.

I used Claude for this job the way most people do — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

I kept breaking this task by overthinking it. Here's the order that finally worked.

Step one is the boring part people skip: write down the exact output you want before you open the tool.

Then let Claude do the draft, but watch caps out on very long coding sessions.

The fix that matters: edit the result in place instead of regenerating from scratch

What changed: writes the cleanest long-form prose of the bunch Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.

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