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For me it's useful in those areas I don't venture into very often. For example I needed a powershell script recently that would create a little report of some registry settings. Claude banged out something that worked perfectly for me and saved me an hour of messing around.

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It’s useful for almost any one-off script I write. It can do the work much faster than me and produce nicer looking output than I’d ever bother to spend time to write myself. It can also generate cli args and docs I’d never "waste time" on myself, which I’d later waste even more time fumbling without

They’re insanely useful. I don’t get why people pretend otherwise, just because they aren't fulfilling the prophesies of blowhards and salesmen

yeah they work pretty well for scripts. I use claude to create scripts i need for .csv transforms and things. Like read all these files in a directory, merge them together on some key and convert this to that and all kinds of things and then output a csv with the following header row. For things like that they work pretty well.

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