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MixedClaude Code · 4 Aug 2026

I've found Claude Code absolutely amazing for the sorts of 100-500 line data cleaning/analysis/visualization tasks that used to take me a couple hours to knock out

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100-500 line data cleaning/analysis/visualization tasks

In the thread “LLMs reward expertise”, replying to this comment

Helped: Small self-contained data tasks where I specify preferred packages.

Got in the way: Keeping changes in scope for a ~4000 line codebase.

I've found Claude Code absolutely amazing for the sorts of 100-500 line data cleaning/analysis/visualization tasks that used to take me a couple hours to knock out. They're often self contained (boss wants a graphic for a slide or some numbers), and I tell it which packages I would prefer it to use. …