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YesClaude · 10 Dec 2025

What I found so far is that it's quite a bit better than I am at various unexpected kinds of tasks

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Helped: Finding bugs, analyzing code, and writing documentation.

… But then around six months ago I began working with people who were using LLMs (mostly Claude) to write quite advanced code so I did a "wait what??..." about-face and began trying to use it myself. What I found so far is that it's quite a bit better than I am at various unexpected kinds of tasks (finding bugs, analyzing large bodies of code then writing documentation on how it works, looking for security vulnerabilities in code) or at least it's much faster. I also found that there's a whole art to "LLM Whispering" -- how to talk to it to get it to do what you want. …