Yes
This literally saved 4 hours of extremely boring work, digging through the code to find various hardcoded filenames, downloading them, scp'ing them, and using them to do what I want
alansammarone on Hacker News
saved 4 hours
In the thread “Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode”, replying to this comment
Helped: Specific prompts referencing exact files and tasks in a complex codebase.
Got in the way: Asking the model to perform research directly instead of using web UI.
… The code is not great, the math involved is non trivial (it's research-level code that's been productionized in hurry). This literally saved 4 hours of extremely boring work, digging through the code to find various hardcoded filenames, downloading them, scp'ing them, and using them to do what I want. It one-shotted it. …