Here’s a short video tour of how I’ve configured Claude with style guides and a knowledge base to automate some of my more formulaic developer advocate tutorials for my client Sensible.

Here’s a recent example of a blog post published using this set up:

How to extract data from CMS 1500 forms with Sensible

And for comparison’s sake, here’s an example of a similar blog post I wrote without AI assistance:

How to extract from rent rolls with LLMs and Sensible

I should note that even with a fairly successful prompt like this one, there’s still a substantial editorial process. For example, for this blog post, I made the following manual edits:

  • Corrected some inaccurately generated inline code comments (code hallucination is still a thing even with a prebuilt example config!)
  • Added lots of inline comments to the code examples
  • Corrected a misstatement about the purpose of a feature (‘fingerprints are for classifying document types!’ well, no, they’re for classifying document subtypes)
  • Inserted a bunch of screenshots
  • Added in a bunch of prerequiste setup steps that Claude missed even though those steps were in the prompt context (signup for an account; clone cms-1500 support to your account)
  • Slimmed down verbose fluff and nixed some marketing hyperbole (‘this is the perfect method for…’)
  • Modified the example PDF to provide a better example for a complex feature (the sections method)
  • Rewrote a heavily hallucinated conclusion (‘signup for a free account for $100/month!’)

Even with this editorial process, Claude still roughly halved the time I’d normally spend on a post like this. I expect it to save me even more time in future, since I spent a lot of that time on reusable Claude project configuration.

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