Small targeted use of LLMs is the sweet spot for me, that can include Claude Code usage but not “write me this huge feature kthxbai”, I use it with dangerous permissions but I normally ask it to do small tasks that I review/tweak right away. That plus Copilot (auto-complete, I don’t care for the agent mode) is what I’m using right now.
I do lean heavily on Claude Code or other LLMs for small scripts and one-off tests. It’s amazing for that, “here are some log lines, I want I extract X, Y, Z from each line and write that out to a new file” or even little tools to wrangle out ticketing system “write a script to read ticket ids from a file and update each ticket to fill out the deployed version field with the value I pass into this script”.
Lastly, not exactly “writing code” but I semi-recently started asking Claude Code things like “find me all the places we do X in the code base” or “how does Y feature work”, it’s FAR from perfect but it’s an amazing starting point. Claude code doesn’t need to write code to be useful, just being able to spider through my codebase and pull out insights is amazing.
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Small targeted use of LLMs is the sweet spot for me, that can include Claude Code usage but not “write me this huge feature kthxbai”, I use it with dangerous permissions but I normally ask it to do small tasks that I review/tweak right away. That plus Copilot (auto-complete, I don’t care for the agent mode) is what I’m using right now.
I do lean heavily on Claude Code or other LLMs for small scripts and one-off tests. It’s amazing for that, “here are some log lines, I want I extract X, Y, Z from each line and write that out to a new file” or even little tools to wrangle out ticketing system “write a script to read ticket ids from a file and update each ticket to fill out the deployed version field with the value I pass into this script”.
Lastly, not exactly “writing code” but I semi-recently started asking Claude Code things like “find me all the places we do X in the code base” or “how does Y feature work”, it’s FAR from perfect but it’s an amazing starting point. Claude code doesn’t need to write code to be useful, just being able to spider through my codebase and pull out insights is amazing.