2026-01-19 02:47 UTC
But to be a bit serious about what a coding assistant has unlocked. I've been poking around with Opus 4.5, while mostly cleaning the basement, on this project to grab CI "flaky test" logs and work out exactly what test is causing the problem and then fix it. And it just works. I mean, let it grind for 15 minutes, and it spits out "right there's your problem; here's the fix." And yeah, I could have done it by hand, sure. But I've put it off for months because it's so tedious.
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@stevestreza@indieweb.social 2026-01-19 02:56
@cocoaphony@mastodon.social Tedious, detail-oriented work is perfect for AI coding. I have had Claude make so many "I wish this existed but I don't want to write it" scripts in the last year. Also, it makes them more thorough than I would, with better error handling and --help flags and all that. Lets me focus on productive and interesting tasks.