Most people open Claude and treat it the same way regardless of the job - quick questions, full documents, website builds, all handled from the same chat window. But Claude has four distinct ways of working, and picking the wrong one is usually why the output feels inconsistent. The prompt isn't the problem. The mode is. Chat is for quick answers and thinking out loud: a question, a fast brainstorm, a rewrite in two minutes. Cowork is for finishing whole pieces of work where you care about the final result - documents, decks, multi-step projects. Code is for building things: a landing page, a small internal tool, something clickable. Skills are for tasks you do repeatedly - the same process, week after week, with your templates and instructions already baked in. The short version: need an answer, use Chat. Need a document, use Cowork. Need something built, use Code. Doing it again next week, turn it into a Skill. There's a one-page reference PDF covering all four modes in detail inside AI Video Motion, along with a walkthrough of when each one changes the quality of what you get. If on mobile, swipe right 👉 for the PDF Des Dreckett - AI Video Motion