it basically one-shot from there
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replace like 6 workdays of effort
In the thread “Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation”, replying to this comment
Helped: Providing sample files and read-only ERP access with specific style instructions.
Got in the way: Initial attempts using standard SQL workflow logic yielded terrible results.
… like xxxx” where the tables were outputs from reports in our ERP but I was having terrible results. Ended up pointing Claude at a few sample files from our existing reporting, gave it read-only oauth access to the ERP and said “build a new report showing the cash by project as calculated by xxxx - yyyy + zzzz in the style of the existing reports” and it basically one-shot from there. Kind of crazy and I built a bunch of redundant check-sums because I honestly didn’t think it would be able to replace like 6 workdays of effort for the 2 FTEs who generate that kind of thing manually every month but so far so good..