Yes
I leaned on Claude to set up the boilerplate, the GUI, etc, which gave me more mental budget for playing with the challenging aspects of the problem
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execution took about one day's work
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Helped: Setting up boilerplate and GUI to free mental budget
… https://bsky.app/profile/micahscopes.bsky.social/post/3ls3bz... In both these examples, I leaned on Claude to set up the boilerplate, the GUI, etc, which gave me more mental budget for playing with the challenging aspects of the problem. For example, the tabu graph layout is inspired by several papers, but I was able to iterate really quickly with claude on new ideas from my own creative imagination with the problem. …