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YesClaude · 26 Jul 2026

Claude allows me to tear through the kind of gruntwork I’ve been doing ad nauseam for the last 15 years

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Helped: Handling repetitive gruntwork and optimizing complex database queries.

… It’s all just work. Claude allows me to tear through the kind of gruntwork I’ve been doing ad nauseam for the last 15 years. If my tasks were things like squeezing 3% more efficiency out of an algorithm, that might be different. …