Comment by SatvikBeri
7 days ago
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
>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?
Not technically a nanny, but not dissimilar. In this case, they do several types of work (house cleaning, watching 1-3 kids, daytime and overnights, taking kids out.) They are very competent – by far the best we've found in 3 years – and charge different rates for the different types of work. We also need to track mileage etc. for reimbursement.
They had a spreadsheet for tracking but I found it moderately annoying – it was taking 5-10 minutes a week, so normally I wouldn't have bothered to write a different tool, but with vibe coding it was fairly trivial.
How did you give Clause access to AWS?
It does ok with using the AWS cli
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Just awscli
Why is your babysitting bill so complicated?
There are several different types of work they can do, each one of which has a different hourly rate. The time of day affects the rate as well, and so can things like overtime.
It's definitely a bit of an unusual situation. It's not extremely complicated, but it was enough to be annoying.
Jesus, are you ok? Can’t you just, like, give em a 20 when you get home?
I find it quite funny you’ve invented this overly complex payment structure for your babysitter and then find it annoying. Now you’ve got a CLI tool for it.
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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.
I mean, as I said, I literally had Claude prototype them, and then I rewrote the working one from scratch. I didn't commit any of the code written by Claude.