After years of being frustrated by the inability of AI to read my handwritten notes, I am frankly shocked to report that this morning Claude Opus 4.5 simply one-shotted my crappy handwriting.
The singularity is nigh…
My handwritten notes from 12.4.25
Here’s what Claude transcribed:
12.4.25
It sucks that even deep research is just filled with slop, because google is filled with slop.
Benchmarking (private /ungameable) will become increasingly more valuable.
Evals. actually
The faint text visible below is bleed-through from writing on the reverse side of the page, not additional notes - and Claude correctly identified that too.
(This is subliminally a commercial for Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar’s course, because: Evals. actually)
Update: Gemini 3 Pro Preview also one-shotted these notes.