My work thinks theyre being forward thinking by shoving ai into everything. Not that we are forced to use it but we are encouraged to. Outside of using it to convert a screenshot to text (not even ai…thats just ocr) I haven’t had much use for it since it’s wrong a lot. Its pretty useless for the type of one off work I do as well. We are supposed to share any “wins” we’ve had but I’d sooner they stop paying a huge subscription to Sammy A.
Mine, but they invested in an agent instead of just an LLM chat. I’m not interested in the chat based ones, I don’t think they provide much value, but Claude Code is genuinely a beast. My jaw drops every time I use it and it just does things for me, with a clear task list that it updates and confirmation/edit prompt when editing files or running bash commands. I can delegate all my boring or precisely defined tasks to it and focus instead on coding and finding solutions to interesting problems.
For example, last week I found a function parameter that was not in use. I usually go through git history to check when/why it was removed, but it’s not something I do often and going on command hunting every time is just not exciting. I gave it following prompt
“in file x, function a, there is parameter b which is no longer used. Go through git history and find the commit when it was deleted from the function body”
and I was able to have a two minute break while it executed git and grep commands. Yes it is a small thing, but then there are many small things like that throughout the day and not having to do them saves a lot of mental capacity.
I feel like this specific coding use makes sense.