Specifically within the last week, I have used Claude and Claude via cursor to:
- write some moderately complex powershell to perform a one-off process
- add typescript annotations to a random file in my org's codebase
- land a minor feature quickly in another codebase
- suggest libraries and write sample(ish) code to see what their rough use would look like to help choose between them for a future feature design
- provide text to fill out an extensive sales RFT spreadsheet based on notes and some RAG
- generat some very domain-specific realistic sounding test data (just naming)
- scaffold out some PowerPoint slides for a training session
There are likely others (LLMs have helped with research and in my personal life too)
All of these are things that I could do (and probably do better) but I have a young baby at the moment and the situation means that my focus windows are small and I'm time poor. With this workflow I'm achieving more than I was when I had fully uninterrupted time.
- write some moderately complex powershell to perform a one-off process
- add typescript annotations to a random file in my org's codebase
- land a minor feature quickly in another codebase
- suggest libraries and write sample(ish) code to see what their rough use would look like to help choose between them for a future feature design
- provide text to fill out an extensive sales RFT spreadsheet based on notes and some RAG
- generat some very domain-specific realistic sounding test data (just naming)
- scaffold out some PowerPoint slides for a training session
There are likely others (LLMs have helped with research and in my personal life too)
All of these are things that I could do (and probably do better) but I have a young baby at the moment and the situation means that my focus windows are small and I'm time poor. With this workflow I'm achieving more than I was when I had fully uninterrupted time.