This is a weekly diary of my own AI use, mostly through Claude Code. The prompts and chat logs are automatically scraped from my devices but I edit and review before publishing.
These are not all of my weekly activities (I filter out any with client info or anything personal) but hopefully you'll get a sense of how I'm using the technology.
Prompts are lightly edited for clarity and security, and truncated if they're very long. Reflections are written by me at the end of each week and automatically pushed to this page.
Prompt:
You are downloading open-access academic PDFs. For EACH of the following URLs, in order: navigate to the URL in a new tab, wait up to 15 seconds for any 'Just a moment' / Cloudflare check to clear, and if a PDF is displayed in the browser, trigger the download (use the PDF viewer's download button, or the browser's download action) so the file lands in ~/Downloads. Do NOT sign in anywhere, do NOT type credentials, do NOT click anything other than a download/save button. After all URLs, reply with one line per URL: URL | displayed PDF yes/no | download triggered yes/no.
1. https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2422633122?download=true
2. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.11 […]
What I was trying to achieve: I wanted to batch download open-access academic papers from multiple publisher sites.
What happened: I discovered that multiple academic publishers block Chrome extension-based automation due to per-site permission requirements, preventing downloads without manual intervention.
Reflection: There’s always a workaround… until there isn’t. And then there’s a new workaround.