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YesClaude · 7 Mar 2026

I gave Claude the task, a log parser (which it also wrote), and told it to find what each issue was

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It did the job in a few minutes.

In the thread “Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion”, replying to this comment

Helped: Providing a log parser and specific debugging task.

… I put it on a task that I'd spent months on: debugging a distributed application which had random errors which required me to comb through MBs of logs. I gave Claude the task, a log parser (which it also wrote), and told it to find what each issue was. It did the job in a few minutes. …