Great for annoying ad-hoc programming where the objective is clear but I lack the time or motivation to do it.
Example: After benchmarking an application on various combinations of OS/arch platforms, I wanted to turn the barely structured notes into nice graphs. Claude Code easily generated Python code that used a cursed regex parser to extract the raw data and turned it into a bunch of grouped bar charts via matplotlib. Took just a couple minutes and it didn't make a single mistake. Fantastic time saver!
This is just an ad-hoc script. No need to extend or maintain it for eternity. It has served its purpose and if the input data will change, I can just throw it away and generate a new script. But if Claude hadn't done it, the graphs simply wouldn't exist.
Update: Sorry, missed "writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code"... well for core development I too haven't really used it.
Great for annoying ad-hoc programming where the objective is clear but I lack the time or motivation to do it.
Example: After benchmarking an application on various combinations of OS/arch platforms, I wanted to turn the barely structured notes into nice graphs. Claude Code easily generated Python code that used a cursed regex parser to extract the raw data and turned it into a bunch of grouped bar charts via matplotlib. Took just a couple minutes and it didn't make a single mistake. Fantastic time saver!
This is just an ad-hoc script. No need to extend or maintain it for eternity. It has served its purpose and if the input data will change, I can just throw it away and generate a new script. But if Claude hadn't done it, the graphs simply wouldn't exist.
Update: Sorry, missed "writing self-contained throwaway pieces of code"... well for core development I too haven't really used it.