claude code is a godsend for the fiddly-but-brain-dead parts of the job
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Helped: Fiddly config, cloud infra, scripts, and dashboards.
Got in the way: Maintaining complex linear programming and neural net models.
… Ignore both the hucksters and the people loudly denigrating everything LLM-related, and somewhere in between you find the reality. I'm in a tiny team of 3 writing b2b software in the energy space and claude code is a godsend for the fiddly-but-brain-dead parts of the job (config stuff, managing cloud infra, one-and-done scripts, little single page dashboards, etc). We've had much less success with the more complex things like maintaining various linear programming/neural net models we've written. …