alt Hacker NewsCompletely agree. In the past 12 months, I've had five or six use cases that I would not have bothered scripting or automating before, but I've cranked out scripts or even small web services in under an hour that get the job done using AI. It has really revolutionized the super small bite-sized issues
exactly this! You can do things nearby with one prompt which would have taken weeks before to tinker around; esp. ClaudeAI is very good with "give a detailed first prompt and some context sourcefiles and create a working example on first shot".
E.g. I have to deal with lot of reports and those are usually "never fully developed" because "we can add this one row/feature later" because "management want us to ship early". Now I can enhance our reports by whatever metric just by handing over a current XLSX-exportcode and tell the LLM: "now i want additionally XY here...."