it's doing the boring stuff for me and doing it a lot faster and without my having to spend cognitive overhead
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Helped: Writing change notes, test cases, and simple declarative scripts.
… are very simple declarative playbooks or Jenkins pipeline jobs, I use Claude heavily to write out directives and such because it will do so without syntax errors and without me having to google every individual pattern or directive; it's much easier to check what it writes and debug from there. But I'm also not putting Claude in charge in these places, it's doing the boring stuff for me and doing it a lot faster and without my having to spend cognitive overhead (which is at a premium when you're in your late 50s like me). > The one part I would say LLMs seem to help me with is medium-depth questions about DirectX12. …