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NoClaude Code · 18 Jul 2025

My tasks at work are either so trivial that it’s easier and quicker to just do them the old fashioned way, or complex enough that having to steer, correct, and edit the LLMs output is more effort than just writing it myself

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In the thread “Claude Code Unleashed”

Helped: Summarizing git diffs for PR descriptions.

Got in the way: Steering and correcting LLM output for complex tasks.

I still don’t get how people blow so much money per day if they were just on API usage. My tasks at work are either so trivial that it’s easier and quicker to just do them the old fashioned way, or complex enough that having to steer, correct, and edit the LLMs output is more effort than just writing it myself. What I mainly use LLMs for is “Run a `git diff master` and summarize the changes for a PR description” to save some time there. …