How to Stabilize Calling the Claude3 API for Automated Task Processing?
Even the source code has been shared in full.
Pain Points
After Anthropic released the Claude 3 Opus, everyone has probably experienced its power. Yes, this "supersized" large language model has indeed surpassed GPT-4 in many areas and has become the new industry benchmark. So, many people are looking forward to the emergence of GPT-5 or the rumored 4.5. Of course, with the competitors fighting, we ordinary users are the most delighted to see it, haha.
However, using Claude 3, there are still some obstacles for ordinary users at the moment. Even if you have gone through the trouble to register an account, you still use it with trepidation - not just one of my friends has left a message after my tutorial on using Claude 3 to help solve math problems, saying that their Anthropic account has unfortunately been banned again.
In fact, you don't necessarily have to use the official website's dialogue mode to utilize the superpowers of the Claude 3 family.
Yes, you may have thought of Poe, but currently, its call to Claude 3 Opus is indeed too expensive.
You pay $20 to Poe, and you get 1,000,000 credits per month, which doesn't seem like a small amount, right? But the problem is that a single "noble" conversation with Claude 3 Opus consumes 12,000 credits. Do the math yourself and see how many conversations you can have in a month with that amount of credits.
Actually, if you only need to converse with Claude 3 Opus, you might as well try the Perplexity I've recommended to you before. Choose the Writing mode, and you can have 600 conversations with Claude 3 Opus per day, and it's no problem if you use up the quota, as it will be restored the next day. The cost-effectiveness is much higher than Poe.
But not all tasks are suitable to be solved through dialogue. In many cases, a better way to truly automate our workflow is to use the Claude API for data processing.
For example, these are the things I often do, which you have already learned about in my previous articles:
Proofreading of speech transcripts;
Polishing of texts;
Chinese-English translation
They are indeed my essential needs, and I keep improving my workflow as new tools emerge, so I keep mentioning them.
Because the manuscripts I usually handle are quite long, in many cases, the output is not complete in a single dialogue, so if I adopt the dialogue mode, I have to stay in front of the browser and keep inputting "continue". This is too troublesome. On the contrary, if I can switch to command-line calling, I can just dump the content to the program, and then do whatever I want, like having a cup of coffee or taking a stroll, and come back to get the results.
But the problem comes back again - using the Claude API also doesn't seem easy, and you might get banned if you're not careful, which is not worth it.
Fortunately, I've found a better solution recently.
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