Comment by razingeden

5 days ago

>scripting and automation

I cringe at my old boss’s handiwork in Claude and power automate sometimes and go “you know I could just do that in a script and a cron job and it would be completely bullet proof, right?”

Then he just shoots back with, “yeah but now I don’t have to ask you.”

This is my kludge, there are many others like it but this one is mine.

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valleyer  5 days ago

Does the boss not understand that they could get Claude to write them a script and a crontab entry (so they don't have to ask you) -- and then run it forever (so they don't have to pay Anthropic, or risk temperature randomness)? Best of both worlds...

  • senorrib  5 days ago

    Boss might not even know what Bash is, let alone a crontab.

    • razingeden  5 days ago

      crontab yes, flavors of shell, no.

      But I actually did appreciate the one time he handed me a Cisco config that was 90% perfect and took me all of 5 minutes to fix. Sometimes the three of us make a hell of a team.