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SatvikBeriyesterday at 3:55 PM4 repliesview on HN

Sure, here are my own examples:

* I came up with a list of 9 performance improvement ideas for an expensive pipeline. Most of these were really boring and tedious to implement (basically a lot of special cases) and I wasn't sure which would work, so I had Claude try them all. It made prototypes that had bad code quality but tested the core ideas. One approach cut the time down by 50%, I rewrote it with better code and it's saved about $6,000/month for my company.

* My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. I vibecoded a command line tool that's made it a lot easier.

* When AWS RDS costs spiked one month, I set Claude Code to investigate and it found the reason was a misconfigured backup setting

* I'll use Claude to throw together a bunch of visualizations for some data to help me investigate

* I'll often give Claude the type signature for a function, and ask it to write the function. It generally gets this about 85% right


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abrookewoodtoday at 2:06 AM

How did you give Clause access to AWS?

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sauwanyesterday at 8:14 PM

>My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. I vibecoded a command line tool that's made it a lot easier.

Ok, please help me understand. Or is this more of a nanny?

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mdavid626today at 6:46 AM

Are you serious?

“Most of these were really boring and tedious to implement (basically a lot of special cases) and I wasn't sure which would work, so I had Claude try them all.”

I doubt you verified the boring edge cases.

mrdependableyesterday at 5:44 PM

Why is your babysitting bill so complicated?

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