“I slowly trained this project ... nicknamed Eddie, the editor ... ended up with a 16-page instruction manual ... Eddie read my book 30 to 40 times ... we produced 2,500 pages of back and forth.”

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Trained a Claude Cowork project named "Eddie" as an editor by feeding it a 16-page instruction manual and iteratively refining its responses

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