# i gave claude my reading list
Published: 2026-03-16
URL: https://diegoprime.com/blog/claude-reading-list

i have a [page on my site](https://www.diegoprime.com/books) where i log every book i read. title, author, date, and a rating from 1 to 3. nothing else. no reviews, no notes.

i pasted the full list into a fresh claude instance. no memory, no prior conversations, no system prompt. just the raw data. i asked it to build a probabilistic profile of the person behind it.

it told me some things i was amazed at.

i don't mean the obvious stuff. it'd be easy to guess im mexican, in tech, etc. i mean things like:

- it knew the type of music i listen to while working
- it knew my love for philosophy came before my ambition and entrepenur things
- it knew pretty much how my work setup was (like, detailed)
- it knew my biggest fear
- it inferred my aesthetic sensibility
- it reconstructed an emotional profile that was pretty precise

a few hundred data points, zero explicit self-desciption, and it reconstructed things that are genuienly impressive.

it also got some things wrong ofc. age 27 vs 21, but minor shit.

the hit rate on non-obvious predictions was genuinely unsettling. what impresses me isnt the surface-level stuff. its the non-obvious predictions.

in [my last post](https://www.diegoprime.com/blog/density-of-intelligence) i wrote that intelligence is pattern matching and that llms are unreasonably good at it. this felt like a live demonstration. i didn't tell it anything about myself. it told me about myself. what the fuck.

now im doing this with my entire youtube watch history. as is