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YesClaude · 13 Aug 2026

I got Claude to write some Python scripts automate some work spreadsheet and API work and I haven't looked back since

krmmalik on Hacker News

In the thread “Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API”

Helped: Writing Python scripts to automate spreadsheet and API tasks.

Got in the way: n8n was impossible to work with.

… After that, I tried very hard with n8n but just found it impossible to work with until I read some post by some developer that said "just do it in Python". Took me a while to really take that in given I can't code but then I got Claude to write some Python scripts automate some work spreadsheet and API work and I haven't looked back since. I think something like this could have worked several years ago but now it's overkill.