Claude can do impressive synthesis and summarization tasks.

I fed it as much of the Bits and Bobs as I could, and then asked it a specific strategic question that I had previously written up in a document it couldn't see.

It got the document almost exactly right.

How did it do such a good job?

Well, these personal reflections have tons of information about what's on my mind.

All of the key components of the argument are sitting here in the bits and bobs, floating amongst lots of other, unrelated, reflections.

It's not that Claude was able to synthesize things that no one else could see.

It's that Claude is patient enough to sift through hundreds of pages of content, identify throughlines, and then focus in on the subset to collage into a narratively coherent argument.

LLMs are savvy enough, and can instantly do tasks that would require a preternaturally patient human weeks of focused effort sifting through inputs to do.