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> Claude just frees me from the mundane tasks I'd done a million times before and never wanted to do again if possible, which it now is.

What kind of tasks?

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writing any git command, ever, writing any documentation, ever. writing comments in issue trackers, resolving issues in issue trackers, doing pretty much anything in the terminal, ever… basically every imaginable thing which takes time away from the actual job

Why not say “using a computer”. gcl (my alias for git clone) is way faster to use than any prompting. Any use case I found for LLMs, I noticed that a good script or a DSL (as an abstraction) would be way more useful.

you often gcl?

A lot. I often study software I use (mostly OSS) to find how a feature is implemented.

If something is cumbersome and I find myself needing it often (or I think I will need it), I write an alias, a script, an emacs function, etc,... That's the magic of reducing lot of steps to a single button press (or a short command).

Writing unit tests. Modifying existing unit tests to achieve desired code coverage.

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