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YesClaude Code · 27 Aug 2025

Basically small utilities for limited release (personal, team, company-internal) is what AI coding excels at

theshrike79 on Hacker News

30 minutes of "active" time

In the thread “AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore”, replying to this comment

Helped: Small, bounded utility tasks with clear goals.

… Took me maybe a total of 30 minutes of "active" time (4-5 hours real-time, I was doing other shit at the same time) to get it to a point where I can actually use it. Basically small utilities for limited release (personal, team, company-internal) is what AI coding excels at. Like grabbing results from a survey tool, adding them to a google sheet, summarising the data to another tab with formulas. …