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I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job.

Then I got nervous if IT reads our prompts and felt very sheepish if they would be seeing my asking it that.

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Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot.

This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.

fwiw I asked my friend in IT who worked on the Claude rollout if they routinely read out prompts and he said no, they watch category of use and can usage stats then have a few alert flags if it is asked specific things such as security breaches, explicit keywords or about violence but otherwise they don't read it.

I love this and think it is a great use of the tech

now you have a great story for future job interviews asking about how you deal with hardship

Yea it's legit very good at this